Why “SpaceX” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Feels like Oracle outsourced all their datacenter construction to organizations that were not nimble enough to line up contingency plans for alternative power sources and expect…
by bpodgursky · Oct 2, 2026
For the vast majority of SpaceX's wanna-be competitors, it's an opportunity to demonstrate that they still can't do what SpaceX has very reliably done, about 700 times, over the…
by bell-cot · Oct 2, 2026
SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission
by rbanffy · Oct 2, 2026 · 3 points
> cos-play Tony Stark was inside his head > I mean, do you think his Iron Man 2 cameo was random? How did you make that jump? Billionaire wants to be viewed as Tony Stark, and t…
by happymellon · Oct 2, 2026
Falcon 9 program is ending... as for alternatives: > Starship, which NASA is hoping will return humans to the moon, may still offer ride-share missions. But the rocket is design…
by ryzvonusef · Oct 2, 2026
This is theory. If we look at the real world, do sovereign wealth funds typically invest in cigarettes? I don't think so. I think they typically have more stringent ethical guid…
by geysersam · Oct 1, 2026
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and provider of space transportation, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence services, headquartered at the Starbase development site in Starbase, Texas. The company operates three primary segments: Space, which develops and flies the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Dragon spacecraft, and conducts more orbital launches annually than any other launch provider ; Connectivity, which operates the Starlink satellite constellation and satellite-based high-speed broadband internet service; and AI, conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary SpaceXAI, which develops the Grok family of large language models (LLMs) and related products, operates the social network X, and builds and runs large-scale data centers. Read more on Wikipedia