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At a SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas, Tesla staged a driverless demonstration of its long-delayed Roadster 2, launching the car into a jump, flip and landing cushioned by onboard thrusters. Vehicle engineering chief Lars Moravy told Hagerty the car uses rear-wheel drive, two motors producing over a megawatt of power and 1,400 Nm of torque, more than Tesla's three-motor Plaid models.
Tesla unveiled an updated, production-intent second-generation Roadster at a Texas event, demonstrating it driving up a ramp and holding vertically on a wall via underbody suction fans, then flipping upside down and performing a barrel roll using SpaceX-derived cold gas thrusters. Engineering VP Lars Moravy said the suction system can generate up to 2Gs, and the car also hopped over a row of parked Tesla vehicles during the demo.
Blue Origin announced a $330 million expansion of its Rocket Park campus in Cape Canaveral, adding two launch and landing pads for its New Glenn rocket and boosting upper-stage production capacity to 150 units annually. The expansion, expected to finish by summer 2027, aims to support multiple New Glenn launches per week by the end of the decade, the company said in a blog post from SVP Ian Richardson.
SpaceX has requested federal permission to conduct as many as 456 Starship launches annually from its Florida facilities, according to the report. The proposal would mark a massive increase from the company's current launch cadence, reflecting Elon Musk's long-stated goal of operating Starship with airline-like frequency.
Eutelsat's stock surged 16.5% on Friday and roughly 25% over the week after Ukraine reported sudden restrictions on SpaceX's Starshield military satellite service. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Starlink connectivity was cut overnight, hampering drone defenses against Russian attacks and contributing to civilian deaths. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responded by saying control over Starshield systems rests with the U.S. government and President Trump, not SpaceX.
Tesla showed off a new Roadster prototype at a SpaceX test site in McGregor, Texas, demonstrating compressed-air thrusters that let the car leap off the ground. Elon Musk's company says the vehicle is slated for release in 2028, continuing a pattern of repeatedly pushed-back launch dates for the car first teased in 2017.
At a Waco, Texas event, Tesla showed its Roadster launching off a ramp, flipping mid-air, and landing using cold-gas thrusters and a compressed-air system borrowed from SpaceX technology. Tesla says this 'Rocket' configuration, which removes the passenger seat for gas tanks, will be invite-only rather than sold to the public.
Tesla showed off its long-promised next-generation Roadster, demonstrating a 'SpaceX package' of cold-gas thrusters and a downward-force fan system that let the car flip, rotate mid-air, jump, and cling to a vertical ramp during a stage demo. The vehicle's sharp, flat-paneled design echoes the Cybertruck's angular styling.
Tesla showed off its new Roadster at a SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas, using cold-gas thrusters developed with SpaceX to fly off a ramp and perform a midair flip before landing safely. Elon Musk said certain versions can hit 60 mph in under a second and top 230 mph, and Tesla said production will begin in 2028.
Tesla showed off a next-generation Roadster lineup, including a single-seat 'Rocket' configuration fitted with perimeter thrusters that Tesla says allow it to lift off the ground and maneuver in the air. At a demonstration near Waco, Texas, the car climbed a ramp, flipped upside down, launched off and hovered over a lineup of other Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk called it a Tesla-SpaceX collaboration, while Tesla has said the Rocket is not approved for public road use and will be offered by invitation only.
SpaceX's Gabriela Castillo Madrid will testify remotely before the New York City Council's tech committee on Friday at 10 a.m. ET, after the company initially avoided a subpoena and skipped an October 5 hearing attended by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta. SpaceX agreed to appear this week once the council threatened judicial enforcement of its subpoena.
Tesla showed a new Roadster concept that can perform midair flips and controlled landings using 10 cold-gas thrusters developed with SpaceX, powered by two 600-liter compressed-air tanks. The company claims a 0-60 mph time of 0.81 seconds and says underbody suction fans can generate up to 2Gs of downforce. Tesla plans three versions priced from a $50,000 deposit to a $250,000 'Thrust' model and an invite-only 'Rocket' variant, with production targeted for 2028.