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Space tech news: satellites, rocket launches and computing in orbit, including AI hardware headed to space, with sources linked.

A white rectangular Starlink dish tilted on a stand in a grassy yard, with a black cable running from it

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SpaceX picks Qualcomm chips for Starlink Mobile's US 5G network

Qualcomm will supply the radio and processing chips for tens of thousands of Starlink Mobile cell sites across the US, with the first ones going up in 2027.

November 4, 2026

A full-size mockup of Astrolab's FLIP rover with gold-trimmed solar panel and large wire wheels on display at HPE Discover, with an astronaut suit and a Kioxia sign behind it

HPE is sending an AI computer to the Moon on Astrolab's FLIP rover

HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 is a hand-sized, fanless module that will run AI and the first supercomputing benchmarks on the lunar surface, riding on Astrolab's FLIP rover.

October 20, 2026

Long exposure photo of a New Glenn rocket launching at night from Space Launch Complex 36, leaving a bright curved trail across a dark blue sky

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Blue Origin plans more pads and ships for weekly New Glenn launches

Blue Origin is adding two more New Glenn launch pads, two landing ships and a $330 million upper stage factory in Florida, aiming for several launches a week by 2030.

October 17, 2026

Rear three-quarter view of the white second-generation Tesla Roadster with a full-width red tail light and an RDSTR plate, on a dark studio background.

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Tesla reveals the new Roadster, and the top version can lift off the ground

Nine years after the first reveal, Tesla showed the second-generation Roadster in Texas with SpaceX cold-gas thrusters, three trims, $50,000 reservations and production planned for 2028.

October 16, 2026

A United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 in white and blue livery climbing against a clear blue sky

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United now lets you check if your flight has Starlink Wi-Fi

United launched a tracker that shows whether your plane has Starlink, and says nearly half of its daily departures already have the satellite Wi-Fi.

October 15, 2026

A Defense Support Program satellite with its upper stage rising out of Space Shuttle Atlantis's payload bay, with Earth's clouds and the horizon behind it, during mission STS-44 in 1991

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Space Force retires the last of its Cold War missile-warning satellites

The final two Defense Support Program satellites, part of a missile early-warning system that began in 1970, have been moved to a graveyard orbit after more than 55 years of service.

October 2, 2026

TechnologyOctober 2, 2026
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon make their dead zone satellite venture official
The three biggest US carriers signed a joint venture to pool spectrum for satellite-to-phone coverage and named wireless veteran Paul Roth as interim CEO.
AIOctober 1, 2026
A startup wants satellites to think for themselves instead of waiting for instructions from Earth
Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raised $8 million to build software that lets AI models run directly on satellites, cutting the need to send every decision back down to ground control.
AISeptember 29, 2026
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Space, a shared workspace that looks a lot like an office suite
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Space at DevDay 2026, a shared workspace with AI-native documents and slides that puts it in direct competition with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.
TechnologySeptember 28, 2026
SpaceX's Starship reaches orbit for the first time, despite losing an engine
SpaceX's Starship reached Earth orbit for the first time on its 14th test flight, deploying 26 Starlink satellites despite one of its engines shutting down early.
AISeptember 25, 2026
Google's first AI chips in orbit launch October 1
Project Suncatcher's prototype satellite, nicknamed MVP, carries Google TPUs into space on October 1 to test whether AI computing can work in orbit, where solar power is nearly constant.

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