SpaceX's $14.6B Quarter: AI Passes Starlink — October 21, 2026

SpaceX posted ~$14.6B in Q3 revenue with AI overtaking Starlink, Musk discussed a SpaceX-Tesla merger, plus Telesat and Eutelsat news. SpaceX’s AI Revenue Leads Q3 Earnings — Payload Merging SpaceX and Tesla would be a "good idea," Musk says — Space - Ars Technica Reuters (@Reuters) on X: PODCAST: SpaceX-Tesla merger, Witkoff in Russia and Kansas voters — X/@Reuters Telesat lenders offer $3.2B rescue ahead of December default — SpaceQ Media Inc. Eutelsat Signs New German Critical Infrastructure Deal — Via Satellite Chapters 00:00 Today's headlines 00:45 Musk on SpaceX and Tesla merger 02:23 Telesat offered $3.2 billion rescue package 03:45 Eutelsat capacity deal with Amprion 04:38 SpaceX quarter: space, Starlink and AI 07:29 SpaceXSI AI compute, who pays for buildout Source links eutelsat.com @business on X @SawyerMerritt on X Space Stakes is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. Follow Space Stakes: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · Spotify More from Brian Lampert: Quickly Quantum , the daily quantum computing briefing, and Concrete Compute , the daily AI infrastructure briefing. Transcripts and every episode: space-stakes.kngoworld.chatgpt.site .