17 entries dated 2026 across achievements, SpaceX missions and legal records.
Starlink’s third-generation satellites, designed for Starship, deliver roughly ten times the downlink capacity per satellite — pushing toward gigabit user speeds.
xAI closes a $20 billion Series E at a reported ~$230 billion valuation — one of the largest private funding rounds ever — backed by Nvidia, Cisco, Fidelity and others.
Tesla begins deploying its Optimus Gen 3 humanoid robot on its own factory floors, with reportedly 1,000+ units doing real manufacturing tasks.
Tesla began putting Robotaxis with no safety monitor in the car onto Austin roads in January 2026 — a limited share of the fleet at first — and by late 2026 ran the driverless service across six US cities, past a million unsupervised miles.
Tesla deploys an all-time record 46.7 GWh of battery storage in 2025, up 49% year over year, as its energy business becomes a major profit driver.
Starlink surpasses 10 million active subscribers across 150+ countries — the fastest-growing satellite-internet service ever built.
Tesla’s purpose-built, steering-wheel-free Cybercab robotaxi enters production at Giga Texas, built on a radical “unboxed” assembly process.
xAI expanded its Memphis "Colossus" supercomputer past a gigawatt of power — among the largest AI training facilities on Earth — while training its next-generation Grok 5 model.
X Money rolled out a wallet with direct deposit, interest-bearing balances, an X debit card and FDIC-insured deposits via a partner bank — Musk’s return to fintech.
Tesla finalised its custom AI5 inference chip in April 2026 — designed in-house and dual-sourced at Samsung and TSMC — to power Full Self-Driving and Optimus.
The first Tesla Semi rolls off a new high-volume line in Nevada, capping a nine-year wait with a factory sized for up to 50,000 trucks a year.
SpaceX publicly files its S-1 for what would be the largest IPO in history, at a reported valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion.
SpaceX flies the more powerful Starship Version 3 for the first time — a vehicle designed to loft over 100 tonnes to low Earth orbit.
SpaceX’s most-flown Falcon 9 booster has launched and landed more than 30 times — approaching the lifetime flight count of an entire Space Shuttle orbiter.
SpaceX went public in June 2026, raising about $75 billion at pricing and more than $85 billion once the greenshoe was exercised — reported as the largest IPO ever — and briefly made Musk the first US-dollar trillionaire.
The debut of the larger, more capable Starship V3 (Block 3): the new ship survived reentry to a controlled splashdown while the new booster failed its landing burn.
A single Falcon 9 booster flew for the 35th time — the most of any orbital rocket ever, approaching the lifetime flights of a Space Shuttle orbiter.