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Apr 15, 2026
Tesla's AI5 inference chip, due for samples in late 2026 and volume production in 2027 across Samsung and TSMC fabs, uses a half-reticle die design targeting dramatically higher yield at scale. Mus...
Apr 07, 2026
Intel announced it is joining Elon Musk's Terafab project alongside Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. Terafab is a joint venture for a vertically integrated semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas, combining...
Apr 06, 2026
A violent Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of a Starship component was captured on camera at SpaceX's Boca Chica facility. Starbase observer Zack Golden described it as among the most dramatic RUDs se...
Apr 02, 2026
Effective April 1, new U.S. and Canadian customers in select service areas can sign up for Starlink Residential at $35/month for 100 Mbps (down from $50), $65/month for 200 Mbps, and $105/month for...
Apr 02, 2026
SpaceX submitted a confidential S-1 registration to the SEC on April 1, putting it on track for a June Nasdaq listing. The company is targeting a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion and aims ...
Mar 28, 2026
Starship Flight 12, the maiden flight of V3 with Raptor 3 engines, has slipped from Musk's early-April target to a late April window. Booster 19 completed a 10-engine static fire on Pad 2 on March ...
Mar 29, 2026
Starlink-34343 suffered an on-orbit malfunction at approximately 560 km, generating dozens of tracked debris fragments. LeoLabs attributed the event to an internal energetic source rather than a co...
Mar 30, 2026
Transporter-16 lifted off from Vandenberg SFB carrying 119 payloads from dozens of commercial, academic, and government customers. This was the 16th dedicated Transporter mission and 21st in SpaceX...
Mar 30, 2026
Booster B1067 launched for a record-breaking 34th time from Cape Canaveral, deploying 29 Starlink satellites and landing on the droneship Just Read the Instructions. The booster has been in service...
We model Starship's cost per kilogram under two recovery modes and map the results against the launch cost thresholds from our orbital compute crossover analysis. The finding: booster reuse, already demonstrated, gets Starship more than halfway to the base case. Ship reuse, which SpaceX is sequencing toward with V3, crosses that threshold on the first reflight.
Starship cost/kg and orbital compute cost scenarios
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