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Streamed live 13 hours ago
Buckle up.
https://www.tesla.com/roadster
Ramp Demo: 6:03-10:55
Kickflip Demo: 10:56-12:43
Design: 12:47-14:38
Aero: 14:38-15:57
0-60 Demo: 15:58-19:26
President Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House for a state dinner Thursday, whose guest list is full of tech billionaires and some of the worldâs most powerful business leaders.
Dressed in black tuxedoes, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos were among the corporate elite invited to attend the dinner, according to a guest list released by the White House.
(June 2, 2026)
Britain has begun using SpaceX‘s militarised satellite network Starshield, according to two people familiar âwith the matter, making it among the first countries outside the United States to adopt Elon Musk‘s government-focused variant âof Starlink.
Starshield, developed for the U.S. government, is designed for military and intelligence missions with enhanced security features, while SpaceX‘s standard Starlink broadband service is aimed at consumer and commercial use.
(May 26, 2026)
The ongoing disputes, which have not previously been reported, underscore how the Pentagonâs growing reliance on SpaceX is handing Musk greater leverage over a critical layer of U.S. national security â at a time when SpaceX âis seeking to boost revenue ahead of an IPO next month that could be among the biggest in history.
Unlike consumer Starlink terminals available at stores including Walmart, SpaceX sells a military-specific version called Starshield to the Pentagon under a 2023 agreement. Starshield terminals can connect to both commercial Starlink âsatellites and a separate, more secure constellation, also called Starshield, according to a person familiar with the matter.
(March 20, 2026)
Starlink is far more than a commercial connectivity service. It is strategic infrastructure that increasingly shapes how wars are fought, how states manage internal unrest, and how criminal networks operate in ungoverned spaces. What makes Starlink so politically consequential is not just its globe-spanning reach but also the governance model behind it.
A private company is now a gatekeeper in orbit, helping decide who connects as well as where, under what conditions, and with what technical constraints. In a growing number of conflicts, these decisions carry military and political effects that states struggle to replicate or control. If many strategic supply chains now depend on private firms, Starlink is an unusually concentrated case of private discretion over public security functions.
The delegationâs collective wealth exceeds US$1.07 trillion, according to data from Forbes and United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings compiled by Quiver Quantitative, and each member holds a significant commercial stake in the bilateral relationship.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk leads the group with a personal net worth of US$827 billion, representing over 77 per cent of the delegationâs total wealth.
In a Gallup favorability poll on 14 U.S. and global figures released Tuesday, Musk came in with the lowest net favorability rating at -28 points. Benjamin Netanyahu, the far-right prime minister of Israel and champion of the countryâs genocidal campaign in Gaza, is slightly less hated at -23 points.
While Musk may have the millions to pour into backing certain candidates â which he has already promised to do, pledging to support Rep. Thomas Massieâs (R-Ky.) reelection campaign amid targeting from Trump â establishing a third party involves a series of thorny obstacles including navigating complex state laws, ballot access regulations and other legal hoops.
So far, the billionaire would-be party founder has yet to outline a concrete plan forward.
Mr. Musk, once a close ally of President Trumpâs who in recent weeks has repeatedly bickered with him, had not filed paperwork as of Saturday evening for the new party, though he added in a separate post that the America Party would be active in elections ânext year.â No immediate signs suggested that Mr. Musk was working to establish his party quickly. Any new entity would be required to be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission.
The trouble between the two started brewing days ago, when Musk denounced Trump‘s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill. The president initially held his tongue while Musk campaigned to torpedo the bill, saying it would add too much to the nation‘s $36.2 trillion in debt.
Trump broke his silence on Thursday, telling reporters in the Oval Office he was „very disappointed“ in Musk.
„Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don‘t know if we will anymore,“ Trump said.
As Trump spoke, Musk responded in real time with increasingly acerbic posts on X.
âDefendants appear to sanction unlimited Executive power, free from checks and balances, but the Constitution prohibits unilateral control over âofficial appointmentsâ by âdividing the power to appoint the principal federal offices ⊠between the Executive and Legislative Branches,‘â Chutkan added.
The judge further dispatched the defendantsâ argument that a court cannot review the presidentâs actions in this case.
âThe fact that President Trump purports to create a position and assign it powers by Executive Order does not preclude review under the Appointments Clause,â she wrote.
âNo branch may aggrandize its own appointment power at the expense of another and no branch may abdicate its Appointments Clause duties,â Chutkan added. âAnd the Judiciary has a duty to maintain âthe constitutional plan of separation of powers.â Consequently, the court will reject Defendantsâ perverse reading of the Appointments Clause.â
A federal judge in D.C. Tuesday greenlit lawsuits challenging Elon Muskâs position in the federal government and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as unconstitutional.
Judge Tanya Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said 14 states and a group of advocacy organizations plausibly argued that Musk and DOGEâs efforts to slash the government violate the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.
Driving the news: U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a motion to dismiss the case.
She wrote in a 42-page order: „The Constitution does not permit the Executive to commandeer the entire appointments power by unilaterally creating a federal agency pursuant to Executive Order and insulating its principal officer from the Constitution as an ‚advisor‘ in name only,“ the judge wrote. „This is precisely what Plaintiffs claim the Executive has done.“
He was officially hired as a „special government employee,“ which is a role Congress created in 1962 that allows the executive or legislative branch to hire temporary employees for specific short-term initiatives.
Special government employees are permitted to work for the federal government for „no more than 130 days in a 365-day period,“ according to data from the Office of Government Ethics. Musk‘s 130-day timeframe, beginning on Inauguration Day, was set to run dry on May 30.
This announcement comes as key figures in the tech world, including Tesla‘s Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Metaâs Mark Zuckerberg, are expected in Riyadh for a US-Saudi investment forum. The event is expected to feature a series of multibillion-dollar deals across AI, defence, and other sectors.
(May 8, 2025)
Critics have slammed the platform for having a „double standard,“ slamming how Musk proclaims to be a free speech absolutist but also complying with Ankara‘s government gag orders. Other Big Tech platforms have also cooperated with similar Turkish government requests in the past.
X said in its post that it risks being entirely shut down in Turkey if it does not comply with the orders.
(February 22, 2025)
Elon Musk‘s latest space-related hammer throw is to call for it to be deorbited as soon as two years from now. In posts to X, Musk said, „It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the (space station). It has served its purpose.
(July 21, 2008)
DIE ISS: KALT SABOTIERT UND IN DER SACKGASSE
NASA-Chef Michael Griffin hat selbst die Entwicklung des âSpace Shuttleâ und der Internationalen Raumstation ISS als âeinen Fehlerâ (âa mistakeâ) bezeichnet. Erst nach verblĂŒfften Protesten aus der Wissenschaft zog er halbherzig zurĂŒck. Aber mehr und mehr fragen sich die Beobachter aus Wissenschaft und Weltöffentlichkeit, ob man es mit einem neuen âWettrennen im Weltraumâ zu tun hat, welches eher militĂ€risch motiviert ist.
An ISS und Space Shuttle (siehe Screenshot, aus einem Bild der ESA) wird kritisiert, dass sie keinen âGewinnâ abwerfen. Auf den ersten Blick einfach grosser Quatsch. Auf den zweiten skrupelloses KalkĂŒl. Man will die zivilen Projekte einfach loswerden und denkt sich eine entsprechend dumme Luftblase aus, um diese dann testweise in die Ăffentlichkeit zu setzen, dann entweder bei entsprechendem Geschrei zurĂŒckzuziehen und wegzuheucheln oder einfach immer weiter mit dem Abbau der zivilen Wissenschaft zu machen bis alles zerstört, runiert und endlich verloren ist.
Einfacher Hintergedanke: wenn man einen Krieg fĂŒhren will, braucht man einen Feind, keinen Mitmenschen auf irgendeinem Planeten mit dem man dies und das gemeinsam hat. Das verwirrt nur die blöde Hammelherde die man an die Front quatschen will.
Die ISS, obgleich nicht mal fertiggebaut, steht ab 2010 ohne VersorgungsfÀhre da, weil die NASA auch die Space Shuttles einmottet und seit den 70er Jahren, unter den 8 Jahren Ronald Reagan mit seinem Vize George Bush, dessen 4 Jahren als PrÀsident, 8 Jahren Bill Clinton und dann noch 8 Jahre George Bush Junior oben drauf, kein Nachfolgemodell entwickelt hat.
Den fĂŒr 2015 in Aussicht gestellten US-Raumgleiter âOrionâ darf man nicht als schlechten Witz bezeichnen, man muss es. Er besteht nur auf dem Papier, ebenso wie die notwendige TrĂ€gerrakete Ares.
Beide Luftnummern sollen im Rahmen dieses wohlklingenden âProject Constellationâ angeblich aus uralten Komponenten des âApolloâ-Programms, ja sogar aus der steinzeitlichen Delta-IV Rakete (ausgerechnet von Boeing) zusammen gesetzt werden.
Deshalb mĂŒssen ab 2010 nun zur Versorgung der ISS die Russen einspringen â mit den uralten Kapseln der Sojus-Kapseln. Es ist zum Verzweifeln.
Und ab 2015, so drohte NASA-Chef Griffin indirekt, ist das Projekt ISS sowieso hinfÀllig.
Auch nicht die ESA, die kanadische oder die japanische Raumfahrtbehörde machen z.Z. irgendwelche Anstrengungen um die Zukunft der einzigen Raumstation der Menschheit im All zu retten.
Dabei werden dann wirre PlĂ€ne ĂŒber Mond- und Marsmissionen in die Welt gesetzt die völlig irreal und nicht umzusetzen sind, weil bei immensen technischen und infrastrukturellen Problemen trotzdem alle gegeneinander arbeiten und vor einander warnen, besonders vor den Chinesen welche zwar auffĂ€llig zielstrebig und fleissig ihre Raumfahrt selbststĂ€ndig ausbauen, aber gerade mal ihren ersten Taikonauten ins All gebracht haben und noch mindestens 10 Jahre hinter dem Stand der Russen und Amerikaner sind.
Und die Franzosen? Sie hatten schon Mitte der 70er Jahre die PlĂ€ne fĂŒr den Raumgleiter âHermesâ in der Schublade, die natĂŒrlich konsequent nicht umgesetzt wurden.
1987 wurde dann endlich der erste Schritt getan, um das ganze Programm dann 6 Jahre spĂ€ter wieder einzustellen, ausgerechnet mit der Explosion der Challenger-RaumfĂ€hre als BegrĂŒndung, die bereits 1986 erfolgt worden war.
Einerseits mĂŒsse man jetzt wohl doch Schleudersitze einbauen (was fĂŒr ein Witz), deswegen könne man weniger Astronauten und Fracht mitnehmen, ausserdem habe man kein Geld und ausserdem brauche man eh keine RaumfĂ€hre.
Jetzt von einer Mondfahrt, oder gar einer Reise zum Mars zu erzĂ€hlen, ist irrational und unwissenschaftlich. Letzteres ist mit normalen Verbrennungstechniken bzw. chemischen Triebwerken sowieso nicht zu schaffen, und der Ionenantrieb, dessen erste EntwĂŒrfe vom deutschen Hermann Oberth aus den 20er Jahren stammen, dĂŒmpelt leise vor sich hin. Funktionieren tut er nur im Vakuum, nicht in der AtmosphĂ€re. Starten könnte man nur von einer Raumwerft, deren Anfang wĂ€re erst einmal eine orbitale Station, die aber wird gerade versenkt, usw.
Man erzÀhlt das Eine und macht genau das Andere.
Das ist keine Wissenschaft. Das ist Politik.
(February 22, 2025)
Der ehemalige Astronaut Ulrich Walter bringt einen weiteren Player ins Spiel: „Die Inder haben auch ein bemanntes Raumfahrtprogramm, und falls die USA als Partner wegfallen, wĂŒrde ich eine langfristige Zusammenarbeit mit den Indern empfehlen.“
Klar ist: Auf unabsehbare Zeit hat Europa keine eigene Rakete und kein Raumschiff, um selbst Astronauten in den Weltraum zu bringen. Wenn frĂŒher als geplant auch noch die ISS wegfĂ€llt, könnte es fĂŒr ESA-Astronauten dĂŒster aussehen.
(January 20, 2025)
On Monday, some prominent far-right social media users celebrated Muskâs gestures onstage in Washington, however he had meant them.
As first reported by Rolling Stone, Christopher Pohlhaus, the leader of Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi group, wrote on Telegram: âI donât care if this was a mistake. Iâm going to enjoy the tears over it.â Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, a far-right social media platform, also wrote: âIncredible things are happening already.â
Elon Musk, a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, met with Iranâs ambassador to the United Nations on Monday in New York in a session that two Iranian officials described as a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.
The Iranians said the meeting between Mr. Musk and Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani lasted more than an hour and was held at a secret location. The Iranians, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss policy publicly, described the meeting as âpositiveâ and âgood news.â
(November 8, 2024)
The Biden administration has lifted a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine to help the countryâs military maintain and repair US-provided weapons systems, particularly F16 fighter jets and Patriot air defense systems, an official with direct knowledge of the plan told CNN.
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It is not clear whether Donald Trump will keep the policy in place when he takes office in January. Trump has said he hopes to end the war between Ukraine and Russia âwithin 24 hoursâ of returning to power.
(November 8, 2024)
A senior Ukrainian official confirmed to Fox News that Elon Musk joined a Trump-Zelenskyy call on Wednesday in which President Zelenskyy congratulated the president-elect on his win.
„It was a very good call. Our work continues,“ said the Ukrainian official to Fox News.
Former president Donald Trump returns Butler, Pennsylvania to hold a rally for the first time since an attempted assassination. The gunman, Thomas Crooks, was shot and killed by law enforcement.
The crowd seemed to know Mr. Musk, who drew cheers as he was introduced by the former president. Mr. Trump lavished praise on Mr. Musk, the worldâs richest man, for building an American car company and saving âfree speechâ with X.
„President Trump must win to preserve the Constitution,â Mr. Musk said, after bounding to the mic with his hands in the air. âHe must win to preserve democracy in America.â
At one point, urging people to vote, he claimed, darkly: âIf they donât, this will be the last election. Thatâs my prediction.â
(29.01.2024)
Although some Nitter instances are currently still operational, it is anticipated they will cease functioning shortly as they expire. This development leaves those who were using Nitter to monitor or follow X/Twitter users without an account with fewer options.
The study uses a robot to surgically place a brain-computer interface (BCI) implant in a region of the brain that controls the intention to move, Neuralink said previously, adding that its initial goal is to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone.