Elon Musk obtained a private pilot’s license in 2002. He personally flew several aircraft in the early-to-mid 2000s, including:
• A Piper Meridian single-engine turboprop
• A Cessna Citation CJ2
• Most notably, an Aero L-39 Albatros (a Czechoslovak military jet trainer)
He described the L-39 as “probably the most fun plane I’ve ever flown.” He logged around 600 flight hours before stopping around 2008 because of work.
Starlink connected a remote village in Fiji to the world. 🇫🇯
For the first time, families in Naigani Village on Batiki Island have reliable internet. That makes it easier to call relatives off the island, find information and use services online.
BREAKING: Elon Musk’s Terafab aims to produce 1 million chip wafers a month in Texas by 2032.
Nikkei reports that the Terafab team visited Japan and showed local suppliers what chipmaking equipment it plans to buy.
• 700,000 wafers a month for memory chips, which store data.
• 300,000 wafers a month for logic chips, which do the computing.
That’s about 40 times the planned monthly wafer output of Japan’s Rapidus.
"The biggest topic in the semiconductor industry right now is neither Kioxia nor Rapidus. It's Elon Musk." The supplier executive speaks excitedly.
Tesla and SpaceX plan to make both types of chips under one roof in Texas.
BREAKING: Deutsche Bank says SpaceX is hard to replace in space.
The bank kept its Buy rating after the U.S. midterms. SpaceX can also build AI data centers faster and cheaper than rivals. The bank says that could let SpaceX charge more if computing power gets harder to find.
It says Congress has limited power to intervene directly in SpaceX’s launch and satellite contracts with federal agencies like NASA and the U.S. Space Force.
Deutsche Bank estimates SpaceX could have 8 to 10 gigawatts of computing capacity in 2027. The bank also sees a path to 500 megawatts of data center capacity in orbit by the end of 2029. A Starship that can fly again quickly would help bring costs down.
BREAKING: Argentina’s San Juan government will use 90 @Starlink kits for El Niño emergencies. 🇦🇷
Patricio Gutiérrez, president of state-owned San Juan Innova, says the Starlink kits will also help public hospitals keep issuing e-prescriptions during outages.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on partnership with @SpaceX
“We're very excited. It's going to be one of the largest 5G deployments in the United States. It's a great step on U.S. technology leadership. SpaceX is going to be building their base stations. We provide the silicon for the radio. It's going to be an AI native architecture. It's going to bring a lot of innovation.”
🚨BILL ACKMAN: “If Elon Musk had stopped working, we would only have Tesla. We wouldn't have SpaceX. We wouldn't have Neuralink, a technology that may enable my daughter to see again or speak again.
These are people that we should treasure, people we should applaud.”
BREAKING: A remote school in Vietnam’s mountains is now online, thanks to @Starlink
With no cell signal, teachers in Phia Òi used to cross a river by boat for school updates. Now they can stay in touch with parents and download videos to teach life skills to children. ♥️
BREAKING: Starlink brought internet to a remote mountain village in Vietnam after more than 30 years in a mobile dead zone. 🇻🇳
Residents used to travel down to another village for a signal. Now they can stay in touch online. Huổi Nhả is home to over 220 people. ♥️
Starlink helped save five people stranded in Kazakhstan’s snowy mountains. ♥️
Their SUV broke down about 15 km from the village of Kystau Kurchum. There was no mobile network they could use. Starlink got their call for help through and kept them in touch with rescuers, who used the connection to find them.
Crews drove about 100 km in an all-terrain vehicle and brought all five safely back to the village.
For people stranded far from help, Starlink can be lifesaving technology.
BREAKING: The New Zealand Defence Force has completed a six-month trial of SpaceX’s Starshield for secure satellite communications. It said the trial “showed potential utility.” 🇳🇿
Defence officials said Starshield could give their forces another way to stay connected during missions.
The Defence Force already uses Starlink for internet. Starshield builds on that technology and adds extra security to protect sensitive military messages and data. New Zealand arranged the trial through the U.S. government.
BREAKING: Guyana’s first all-electric ride-hailing service just launched, and every car is a Tesla. 🇬🇾
GuyWay has 52 Model 3s for rides across Georgetown and airport pickups. It plans to add over 100 more cars. Prime Minister Mark Phillips welcomed the investment.
BREAKING: SpaceX just hit 125 launches in 2026. 🚀
That’s about one rocket launch every two and a half days, with nearly two months still to go.
