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SpaceX signed a multiyear deal for Qualcomm to supply radio chips, accelerators and software for Starlink Mobile's U.S. 5G cell sites, with first deployments planned for 2027.
Tesla's Robotaxi service began rides in Fort Worth at 6 a.m. on Nov. 2 across a zone around downtown. The Fort Worth Report took a ride on day one, and Not a Tesla App put the area at about 143 square miles.
In an Oct. 29 letter filed with the SEC, Tesla's board asks shareholders to back all three proposals at the Dec. 3 annual meeting, led by new terms for Elon, Robyn Denholm and JB Straubel. TeslaNorth covered the filing.
In a comment to the DOT and FAA, SpaceX says it expects 10,000 launches a year of its own and asks for priority launch corridors, approval within 48 hours and no airspace fees. TSN and AviNews covered the filing.
SpaceX disclosed a binding commitment for an Apollo-managed entity to buy NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs and lease them to SpaceX, with about $40 billion in principal payments. Reuters and TechCrunch covered the deal, which is set to close by year end.
Quarterly filings from both companies confirm board special committees are studying a possible SpaceX and Tesla combination. No determination has been made. CNBC covered the reaction and the hurdles ahead.
Tesla reported $28.05 billion in Q3 revenue and 48 cents of non-GAAP EPS, with free cash flow back to $1.53 billion. CNBC covered the results and the call.
A Falcon 9 launched 32 payloads on Oct. 20, including the second SpaceX Starfall return capsule, and booster B1085 landed on its 19th flight. Spaceflight Now and NASASpaceFlight covered the mission.
The FAA opened an environmental review on Oct. 14 of a SpaceX plan to take Starbase from 25 Starship flights a year to 100 in a first phase and up to 456 later. Space.com and SpaceNews covered the request; public comments run through Nov. 30.
SpaceXSI announced Grok Voice 3.0 on Oct. 14, a speech-to-speech model with under-one-second latency that already powers millions of daily conversations in Tesla vehicles and about 20,000 Starlink support calls on weekdays.
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