GeekWire
Menu
  • Home
  • News
    • Amazon
    • Civic presented by Microsoft
    • Geek Life presented by Network of Giving
    • Health/Life Sciences
    • Microsoft
    • Podcasts
    • Space
    • Startups
    • Sustainability
    • Tech Moves
    • Bot or Not
    • GeekWire on the Road: Spokane
    • Microsoft at 50 presented by Accenture
    • Tech Vets presented by Northern Trust
  • GeekWork
    • GeekWork Recruiting
    • Job Board
  • Events
    • Community Calendar
    • GeekWire Events
  • Lists
    • Amazon Office Buildings
    • GeekWire 200 presented by JPMorganChase
    • GeekWire Startup List
    • GeekWire Startup Resources
    • GeekWire Startup Spaces
    • Layoff Tracker
    • M&As and IPOs
    • Northwest Women VC & Angel Investor List
    • Recent Fundings
    • Seattle Engineering Outposts
    • Venture Capital Directory
  • Members
    • Health Benefits
    • Memberships
  • Studios
    • GeekWire Studios: Let Us Tell Your Story
    • Nebius at NVIDIA GTC 2025 sponsored by Nebius
    • AWS Marketplace Seller Conference 2024 sponsored by AWS
    • AWS Summit: New York Partner Spotlights sponsored by AWS
    • Does Compute presented by Carnegie Mellon University
    • Guide to re:Invent sponsored by AWS
    • Money Hacks presented by BECU
    • Tech Connect at Dreamforce 2024 sponsored by RSM US LLP
    • Uncommon Thinkers Welcome sponsored by Greater Seattle Partners
    • Zuper at Inbound sponsored by Zuper
  • About
    • About GeekWire
    • Advertise
    • Contact Us
    • Email Newsletters
    • Reprints & Permissions
    • Sponsors
  • Podcast
  • LinkedIn
  • Newsletter
  • News Tips

What Happens Here Matters Everywhere.

  • Podcast
  • LinkedIn
  • Newsletter
  • News Tips
  • Amazon
  • Microsoft
  • Startups
  • AI
  • Science
  • Tech Moves
  • Sustainability
  • Civic
  • Geek Life

Elon Musk

SpaceX Falcon breakup

SpaceX rocket breaks up on latest resupply mission to Space Station

Updated with video below. An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies and scientific experiments for the International Space Station broke up… Read More

Enter SpaceX’s Hyperloop pod design contest for fame, glory, bragging rights

If you dream of perfecting Hyperloops, this contest is for you. SpaceX announced a competition to design and build a… Read More

You can now play the video game Elon Musk wrote at age 12

Before there was Space X and Tesla, there was Blastar. And now, thanks to a Google software engineer, you can… Read More

Space-age heels: How SpaceX’s rocket science is inspiring a better shoe

Heels. Personal trainers, physical therapists, podiatrists cringe when you wear ’em. But, dang, if the right pair of heels doesn’t… Read More

From space to schools, Elon Musk takes on the education system by starting a new school

In an interview for Chinese television, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he has created a new kind of grade school… Read More

The 10 best moments in the new Elon Musk book

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future is out today and filled with more rock-star moments and… Read More

Inside the frightening, delightful world of Elon Musk

The book about Tesla and SpaceX’s Elon Musk is due out May 19, but a few choice quotes are already giving… Read More

Tesla gets into Michigan by buying tool company, still can’t sell cars there

  One way or another, Tesla was bound to get into Michigan. And even though you can’t directly buy a Tesla… Read More

Tesla in the house: Elon Musk’s new batteries aim to transform home, industry, and the grid

Tesla is taking the expertise it developed in creating batteries for its electric cars and scaling it up for homes… Read More

Tesla almost sold to Google in 2013, new book reveals

Google could have been in the electric car business two years ago, had a deal with Elon Musk gone through.… Read More

Incredible video: SpaceX attempts to land Falcon 9 rocket on a barge, again

Just how close did SpaceX come to successfully landing its Falcon 9 rocket on its “autonomous drone ship” in the… Read More

SpaceX and Elon Musk get the ‘Uptown Funk’ treatment

It seems all the world’s fascinated with SpaceX’s attempts to get a rocket to launch and land. So much, in… Read More

Will your home be the next thing powered by Tesla?

The same tech that powers Tesla’s electric cars might be coming to your home sooner than you think. Earlier today,… Read More

Elon Musk makes SpaceX photos free for public use

Talk about responsive. Less than an hour after Elon Musk announced that SpaceX would post photos for non-commercial use under… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin dealt setback in patent dispute with SpaceX over rocket landings

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won a key preliminary ruling in its dispute with Blue Origin over a patent received by the Jeff… Read More

SpaceX founder Elon Musk inks $3.5M book deal to write about Earth and Mars

Like he needed the cash, Tesla and SpaceX head honcho Elon Musk just signed a $3.5 million book deal with… Read More

SpaceX and Space Needle

How Elon Musk plans to get to Mars, via Seattle: What the SpaceX founder said at that private event

If Seattle needs inspiration to think big, it has arrived in the form of Elon Musk. The SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO took… Read More

Report: Google in talks to invest in SpaceX, boosting Seattle-based satellite initiative

Google is close to making an investment in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with the intent of supporting the commercial space company’s… Read More

Photos: SpaceX founder Elon Musk reveals new $10B ‘Space Internet’ plan at private Seattle event

Elon Musk stopped in Seattle on Friday evening, on his way to Mars. The SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO slipped quietly into… Read More

Photos: SpaceX Dragon capsule delivered to Seattle Center for private event with Elon Musk

SpaceX has officially arrived in Seattle. As shown in these photos, posted to Facebook by the Cornish College of the… Read More

Watch this insane SpaceX rocket crash on Vine

SpaceX keeps on making headlines this week. Today it released footage of a Falcon 9 rocket crash-landing into a barge, which they… Read More

Elon Musk is building that hyperloop track he always wanted

Will be building a Hyperloop test track for companies and student teams to test out their pods. Most likely in… Read More

SpaceX’s new Seattle-area office is in Redmond; Elon Musk to visit region this week

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said that video-game developers make for great aerospace engineers. If that’s the case, his company’s… Read More

Elon Musk: SpaceX will hire up to 1,000 people in new Seattle office

Update: SpaceX’s new Seattle-area office is in Redmond; Elon Musk to visit region this week SpaceX founder Elon Musk is… Read More

SpaceX rocket crash-lands on drone ship in ambitious recovery attempt

SpaceX was unsuccessful in its inaugural attempt to land the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket softly on a barge… Read More

Creepy and cool ‘for realz’: Tesla making robotic snakes to charge cars

Wowser. This is oddly fascinating and makes your skin crawl at the same time. Tesla’s Elon Musk has caused a… Read More

SpaceX launching Seattle-area office, recruiting squadrons of Microsoft engineers

Space Exploration Technologies, the Elon Musk-owned company better known as SpaceX, has been heavily recruiting engineers from Microsoft and other companies… Read More

Musk vs. Bezos: SpaceX challenges Blue Origin’s rocket-landing patent

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is petitioning the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to overturn a patent awarded to Blue Origin, the space venture… Read More

Elon Musk: ‘I thought Tesla would most likely fail’

Tesla Motors is on a roll, now manufacturing 600 of its Model S electric vehicles per week as the company’s stock… Read More

Memo: Tesla’s Elon Musk responds to fiery Model S crash, says result could ‘have been far worse’ if gas car

Shares of Tesla tumbled earlier this week after a fiery accident involving a Model S on a roadway in Kent,… Read More

  • Older
  • Newer

A Word From Our Sponsors

About

  • About GeekWire
  • Contact Us
  • Partner With Us
  • Become a GeekWire Member
  • Send Us a Tip
  • Join Our Startup List
  • Reprints and Permissions

Follow

  • Facebook
  • X
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • RSS Feed
  • Podcast
  • YouTube
  • Bluesky

GeekWire Newsletters

Catch every headline in your inbox

Read GeekWire

  • Apple News
  • Google News

Legal

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Sponsored Content Policy
Return to Top of Page
© 2011-2025 GeekWire, LLC
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal information
Limit the Use Of My Sensitive Personal Information
Consent Preferences