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Raptor 4 will make 300 tons of thrust at sea level at roughly the same mass as Raptor 3, @elonmusk said on 26 October. That is 62% more thrust than Raptor 1, from an engine that weighs about as much as a family car. Here is how SpaceX got there, and why it matters for Mars. The cycle nobody had flown • Raptor runs full-flow staged combustion. Every drop of propellant passes through a turbine before it burns. • An oxygen-rich preburner spins the oxygen pump. A methane-rich preburner spins the fuel pump. • Both hot gas streams then meet and burn completely in the main chamber. • The payoff is higher chamber pressure, cooler turbines and no shared seal between fuel and oxidiser. • Before Raptor, the Soviet RD-270 and NASA's Integrated Powerhead Demonstrator had tried the cycle. Neither ever left the ground. • Raptor first flew on Starhopper in 2019 and is still the only full-flow engine to fly. Squeezing the chamber • February 2019: Raptor hit 268.9 bar, beating the record held for decades by Russia's RD-180 • By 2022: Raptor 2 ran routinely at 300 bar • May 2023: a Raptor 3 test engine reached 350 bar and 269 tons of thrust • @elonmusk said the team did not expect it to survive a full-duration run at that pressure, and that the chamber wall "might have the highest heat flux of anything ever made" • Cold methane flows through channels in the chamber and nozzle walls to stop the engine melting itself Three generations, side by side (SpaceX's own figures) • Raptor 1: 185 t thrust, 2,080 kg engine, 3,630 kg installed • Raptor 2: 230 t thrust, 1,630 kg engine, 2,875 kg installed • Raptor 3: 280 t thrust, 1,525 kg engine, 1,720 kg installed • Installed mass fell 53% while rated thrust rose 51% • Thrust-to-weight went from about 89 to 141 to 184 on paper How they deleted the heat shield • Raptor 2 needed a heat shield and a fire suppression system around it on the booster • For Raptor 3, SpaceX pulled pipes, wiring and secondary flow paths inside the engine body and added regenerative cooling to the surfaces left exposed • The high-pressure side lost its bolted flanges and seals in favour of integrated parts • Much of that internal plumbing only exists because of 3D metal printing. Musk says SpaceX has "the most advanced 3D metal printing technology in the world." • He called the work "staggering". The heat shield and its fire suppression system are gone, which saves about 1.15 tons of installed mass per engine and roughly 38 tons across a 33-engine booster. Paper versus reality • The 280 t figure is SpaceX's rating. On 26 October, @elonmusk said, "We can only reliably get to around 230 t-F with Raptor 3." • At 230 t, 33 engines give Super Heavy about 7,600 tons of liftoff thrust • So reliable output today roughly matches Raptor 2's rating, but with 1.15 tons less installed mass per engine and no heat shield • Musk has said a vacuum Raptor with a giant nozzle should reach 380 seconds of specific impulse Raptor 4 • Target: 300 t at sea level, "and hopefully about the same mass" • That is 30% more than Raptor 2 and 7% more than Raptor 3's rating • In November 2025 Musk said Raptor 3 should be 2 to 4 times better than Merlin on cost per ton of thrust, and that Raptor 4 should beat Merlin by more than 10 times • He also expects further gains in thrust-to-weight and efficiency Why methane • Methane can be made on Mars from carbon dioxide in the air and hydrogen from water ice, using the Sabatier reaction • That means a ship can refuel for the trip home without hauling the fuel from Earth • Small, dense engines also let Super Heavy fit 33 of them under a 9-metre base The numbers that close it • Saturn V's five F-1 engines made about 3,400 tons of liftoff thrust • 33 Raptor 4 engines at 300 t would make about 9,900 tons, nearly three times the Moon rocket that defined Apollo Video: @SpaceX and @elonmusk

Tesla's registered Cybercab fleet in Texas just jumped from 463 to 544, and Cybercabs now outnumber Model Y robotaxis for the first time. @texasavtracker flagged the 81 new Texas DMV registrations today at 1:14pm ET (10:14am PT). The count • Cybercab: 544, up from 319 on 9 October • Model Y: 507, unchanged • Tesla's Texas robotaxi fleet is now 1,051, its first time above 1,000 • Registered vehicles are not all in service yet Austin • @RobotaxiRadar says most Cybercabs registered so far have been for Austin • @pbeisel counted about 300 Cybercabs in Austin last week, and @robotaxi reposted it • @RobotaxiRadar logged a weekday record 1,223 Cybercab sightings in Austin on Monday The pace • Tesla has added 225 Cybercabs to the Texas registry in 18 days Video: @justinryanio

SpaceX's first Florida Starship launch will catch the booster at the pad, then fly the ship about six times around Earth to land in Texas. SpaceX VP of Launch Kiko Dontchev laid out the plan at a Cocoa Village Playhouse event, @floridatoday reported. The flight plan • Super Heavy is caught by the chopsticks at pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center • The ship spends 8 to 9 hours in orbit and deploys payloads • It then targets a landing at Starbase. "Florida to Starbase," Dontchev said The pad • Dontchev said 39A's Starship launch infrastructure "is effectively complete" • Doors are going in soon on Gigabay, the 380-foot stacking building at Kennedy • Rockets will be built in Texas and shipped by barge to Port Canaveral • @NASASpaceflight reports the Flight 16 vehicles are expected to head to Kennedy for the 39A launch The pause • Florida's last launch was a Falcon 9 on 20 October • "We have a six-week gap before the next Falcon 9," Dontchev said Video: @NASASpaceflight

United Airlines now has Starlink on 48% of its flights and fits about 3 more planes a day, CEO Scott Kirby said in an interview out Tuesday. He made the comments on Cheeky Pint with @collision and @benthompson, and called Delta's decision not to adopt Starlink "a mistake." The rollout • United expects Starlink on 50% of its flights within about a week • Los Angeles will be its first hub with Starlink on every flight, in the first half of 2027 • The whole fleet is due to be finished by the end of 2027 Kirby on free Wi-Fi • "Free was never the value proposition. Fast is the value proposition." • He said there's only one option for fast, and compared rivals' older free Wi-Fi to "dial-up internet" The scale • United's own Starlink tracker shows 661 aircraft fitted so far Video: @firesidealpha

A police-style Oracle Public Safety Cybertruck is on show at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, fitted out for first responders by @UpfitTesla. @UnpluggedTesla posted a walkaround from the show floor on Monday at 3:46pm ET (12:46pm PT). The truck • Oracle Public Safety livery with a roof light bar and a front push bar • Several screens mounted in the cab alongside the Cybertruck's own display • Oracle's event page shows the truck with its lights flashing and calls it built for first responders The event • Oracle AI World runs 25 to 28 October in Las Vegas • Oracle first showed an Oracle Public Safety Cybertruck at its CloudWorld event in September 2024 The builders • Up.Fit is the public safety division of Unplugged Performance • The two firms outfitted the 10 Cybertrucks Las Vegas police put on patrol in October 2025, according to LVMPD Video: @UnpluggedTesla

SpaceX's Starlink launch early Tuesday was California's 72nd rocket launch of 2026, beating the state's total for all of 2025. The launch • Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 3:25am ET (12:25am PT) carrying 27 Starlink satellites, per @SpaceX • Booster B1082 landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship after its 26th flight The record • California's launch on 23 October was its 71st of the year, tying the 2025 total, per the Victorville Daily Press • Tuesday's flight was also the 117th Falcon 9 launch of 2026, per Space.com • About three-quarters of those Falcon 9 launches carried Starlink satellites • And the record fell with more than two months of 2026 still to go Video: @SpaceX

A lot full of Tesla Cybercabs has been filmed off Maple Ave in Dallas, weeks before Tesla says Cybercab starts giving rides there. The clip • @DallasTexasTV posted the 18-second video on Monday at 7:36pm ET (4:36pm PT) • It pans across rows of gold Cybercabs parked next to other Teslas • The post had passed 107,000 views by Tuesday morning The plan • On Tesla's Q3 call on 21 October, Tesla's Ashok Elluswamy said: "Next month we'll be launching in Dallas" • He added that the same software "just scales to lots of other cities", per @teslaownersSV's transcript of the call The scale so far • @robotaxi said on 10 October that it had scaled to 300+ Cybercabs serving Austin one month after launch • That was an 8x increase in 30 days Video: @DallasTexasTV

SpaceX has fired an engine on Ship 42, the Starship upper stage lined up for Flight 15. The test • @NASASpaceflight filmed a single-engine static fire at SpaceX's Massey's test site in Starbase, Texas, on Monday night • It posted the footage at 10:18pm ET (7:18pm PT) • SpaceX has not commented on the test yet The road here • SpaceX removed all six engines from Ship 42 after Flight 14 and sent it back to Massey's for extra cryogenic testing, per @NASASpaceflight • Starbase trackers reported the engines back in by 18 October What's next • SpaceX has not given a launch date, and Flight 15 still needs an FAA licence • Elon said on SpaceX's 20 October earnings webcast that Flight 15 is expected "next month" • He said SpaceX will try to catch both the booster and the ship, something no one has ever done with an orbital rocket's upper stage Video: @NASASpaceflight

Tesla has updated its FSD (Supervised) safety data, and the gap with average US drivers has widened. The new numbers • Teslas with FSD (Supervised) engaged went 6,006,200 miles per major collision, per Tesla's report, first flagged by @SawyerMerritt • Teslas driven manually with active safety features: 2,031,221 miles • US average: 660,164 miles, which Tesla says means about 9x fewer major collisions What changed • Tesla's previous report showed 5,690,675 miles against a 698,781-mile US average, or about 7x, per Learn My EV • A major collision means an airbag deployed, and Tesla counts any crash within 5 seconds of FSD being active • The data covers North America over a rolling 12 months The mileage • Tesla's live tracker now shows 16.7B FSD miles, 6.6B of them on city streets • @SawyerMerritt calculates the fleet is driving about 50M FSD miles a day, up 35% since July

SpaceX is set to launch 27 Starlink satellites from California tonight, about an hour later than first planned. The launch • Falcon 9 now targets 1:46am ET Tuesday (10:46pm PT Monday) from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The window runs to 4:45am ET (1:45am PT) • Booster B1082 flies for the 26th time and should land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific, per @SpaceX • @SpaceX's webcast starts about 10 minutes before liftoff What it's carrying • 27 Starlink satellites bound for low Earth orbit, adding capacity to SpaceX's broadband network How to see it • @SpaceflightNow says the rocket will fly a southeasterly path after liftoff • Enter or share your location at superchargeddaily.com/see-th… and the page tells you whether it should be visible and which way to look • Tap the live compass and your phone points you straight at it Video: Supercharged Daily, launch footage @SpaceX

Tesla has started installing Powerwall 3P home batteries in the Netherlands. The launch • @teslaenergy announced on Monday at 10:32am ET (7:32am PT) that Dutch installations have begun • Powerwall 3P is the three-phase version of Powerwall 3 The specs • 13.5 kWh per unit and up to 15.4 kW of continuous power, per Tesla's Dutch Powerwall page • Up to four units plus three expansion packs, for 94.5 kWh in total • It can back up a whole home, including heat pumps and EV chargers The heat pump link • It now works with SG-Ready heat pumps, a European smart grid standard • Tesla's installer manual says the battery can boost the heat pump to store heat when there is surplus solar or cheap power The timing • @wesselvk notes that Dutch net metering ends on 1 January 2027, so storing solar at home matters more from then Video: @teslaenergy

A Tesla engineer says the inverter board from the Cybercab's drive unit will ship in Model 3 and Model Y this year. The clip • It comes from Munro Live's new Cybercab deep dive, released Monday at 11:24am ET (8:24am PT) • A Tesla drive unit engineer, named by @TeslasRUs as Nick Verzini, says: "This inverter PCB and power stage will ship in 3 and Y this year" The inverter • It turns battery power into power for the motor • Tesla kept the same interface, so the board can swap straight into a Model Y drive unit • @TeslasRUs reports far fewer electronic parts, with two suppliers for every component The Cybercab line • @niccruzpatane, summarising the walkthrough, says final assembly is about 25 automated stations and there is no paint shop • He says the line already runs faster than the robotaxi rollout, so it does not run every day Video: @live_munro

Tesla has made its driverless Robotaxi zone in Houston far bigger, and the new map is shaped like a Starship. What changed • @robotaxi posted "Houston, we have liftoff. Bigger service area now live" at 9:38am ET (6:38am PT) today • @elonmusk quoted it seven minutes later: "I swear it's just a coincidence" • The zone now covers about 254 square miles, up 916% today, per @SawyerMerritt's count (secondhand) Where it reaches • Rider @Matthewtcone says the new map takes in Downtown, the Medical Center and NRG Park • His family took their first ride in the bigger zone this morning, with nobody in the driver's seat • Per @SawyerMerritt, Houston is now second only to Austin at 272 square miles, and all six of Tesla's zones are fully driverless The bottom line Tesla's Houston Robotaxi zone is now nearly as big as Austin's. Video: @Matthewtcone

SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites from California tonight. The launch • Falcon 9 is targeting 12:45am ET Tuesday (9:45pm PT Monday) from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base • Launch trackers list a window running to 4:45am ET (1:45am PT) • @SpaceX says its webcast starts about 10 minutes before liftoff The booster • It's the 26th flight for booster B1082, which has flown USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20, NROL-145, Transporter-18 and 21 Starlink missions, per @SpaceX • It's set to land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific about 8.5 minutes after liftoff Can you see it? • @SpaceX says Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties may hear sonic booms • In the US, check whether you'll see it from where you are and which way to look, and let your phone's compass point you there: superchargeddaily.com/see-th… Video: Supercharged Daily

A new drone flyover shows The Boring Company's headquarters in Bastrop, Texas, home of its Prufrock tunneling machines. The footage • @SERobinsonJr posted the 6-minute flyover on Saturday at 2:04pm ET (11:04am PT) • He says every machine is tested at the site before it ships, and that Boring also makes tunnel segments, liner trucks and conveyor systems there (secondhand) What's on site • Prufrock-MB4, a hard-rock machine being built for Nashville's Music City Loop. Boring said in October it wants four machines underground in Nashville by the end of the year • A 500-foot walkway tunnel under a busy road that began as a test bore and now links the SpaceX site to Boring's side of the road, per @SERobinsonJr • Prufrock-5, filmed just before it shipped to San Antonio, where @boringcompany says it will dig a 0.8-mile tunnel at Morgan's Inclusion Campus The bottom line Bastrop is where Boring's growing fleet of tunnel machines gets built, tested and sent out. Video: @SERobinsonJr

easyJet is adding Starlink Wi-Fi across its Airbus fleet, its first ever onboard internet. The plan • @easyJet announced it at 7am ET (4am PT) today: "COMING SOON... the fastest Wi-Fi in the sky" • Installs start in the first half of 2027 on its A320, A320neo and A321neo jets, and should finish by early 2028 • Passengers will be able to stream, game and browse on their own devices • Older A319s, which are being retired, won't get it, per AeroTime (secondhand) What we don't know • easyJet hasn't said what it will cost passengers or what it is paying • In January, CEO Kenton Jarvis said the economics of onboard Wi-Fi were challenging, per Reuters The reaction • @elonmusk: "Starlink coming to EasyJet" • Rival Wizz Air signed a Starlink deal in June, per Reuters The bottom line One of Europe's biggest budget airlines, flying about 100 million passengers a year, is going straight from no Wi-Fi to Starlink. Video: @easyJet

Turo will let U.S. renters book Teslas with FSD (Supervised) verified as switched on, starting Wednesday, Oct 28. How it works • Turo announced it at 7am ET (4am PT) today. Hosts link their Tesla account, and Turo checks FSD status directly through Tesla's API • Guests can then search for and book those cars. Turo says thousands are already listed • Eligible U.S. hosts get a free one-month FSD trial The safeguards • Renters are warned they must supervise the system and be ready to take over, and can watch a Tesla tutorial, per TechCrunch Why it matters • Model 3 and Model Y are already Turo's third and fourth most popular cars this year • Tesla said last week about 1.7 million customers have paid for FSD • Turo CEO Andre Haddad says 55% of Americans are interested in driverless tech for travel, and 71% of Gen Z, per Turo's own research Image: @SawyerMerritt

A new clip gives a close look inside the Cybercab's battery pack, from a Munro Live teardown filmed at Giga Texas. The clip • @RobotaxiRadar shared a 75-second preview on Sunday at 7:37pm ET (4:37pm PT) and said the full Munro Live video was due today • It shows an opened Cybercab pack on a stand inside the factory, with an engineer walking Munro's team through it What the engineer says • The pack is built around three big tests: durability, front crashes and side impacts • The cells aren't meant to absorb crash energy. They act as stiff backup for the main crash structure • The top cover bolts into the main enclosure through long beams, so crash loads skip the glued layer of cells • The modules also brace against those beams, which he calls "kind of semi-structural. Video: @RobotaxiRadar

Tesla says its supervised self-driving software is now approved in Latvia, the 10th EU country to sign off. What happened • @teslaeurope posted "Now approved in Latvia, rollout begins soon" at 6:36am ET (3:36am PT) today • Latvia's road safety agency, CSDD, accepted the Dutch approval from April. In Europe the software is now called Tesla Assisted Driving • Latvia joins Estonia and Lithuania, so all three Baltic states now allow it What changed • CSDD says Tesla lowered how far over the speed limit the system can drive, made manual speed offsets reset after every trip, and tightened driver monitoring • Drivers must watch the road at all times and can't use a phone The fine print • CSDD warns snow, mud and road salt can interfere, and it may struggle on gravel roads • It costs about $111 a month in Europe, per Electric Vehicles (secondhand) Image: @teslaeurope

106 Tesla Megapacks are being installed on the site of a former coal power plant in Genk, Belgium. The project • Developer Storm is building the battery park at the old Langerlo plant, where coal was burned for power until 2016, per Nieuwsblad • It will deliver 100 MW of power and store 400 MWh, using Megapack 2XL units • Most have arrived, and Storm says all 106 should be in place by early November What it's for • The batteries soak up power when wind and solar are plentiful and release it when demand rises • Storm CEO Jan Caerts told VRT it is enough to supply around 40,000 households • Energy company Eneco will run the park for 10 years What's next • Hooking up to the grid is planned for spring 2027, per VRT • Together with a second, 200 MW park in Ruien, Storm is investing about $370 million