SpaceX continues its blistering launch cadence with a successful Starlink mission on April 22, when a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 8:23 p.m. PDT, deploying 24 broadband satellites to bolster its constellation of over 10,200 spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Spaceflight Now reports the first-stage booster B1100, on its fifth flight, nailed a pinpoint landing on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You just over eight minutes after liftoff, marking SpaceX's 40th Starlink launch this year, the 192nd landing on that vessel, and the company's 602nd booster recovery overall.

In a jaw-dropping business move, SpaceX announced a $10 billion collaboration with AI startup Cursor to fuse its Colossus supercomputer with Cursor's coding expertise for advanced "knowledge work" AI, with an option to acquire the company later this year for a staggering $60 billion, as detailed by Fortune. Cursor CEO Michael Truell faces immense pressure, but this could supercharge SpaceX's tech ambitions beyond rockets.

Valuation buzz is rampant too, with finance professor Aswath Damodaran's Substack dissecting SpaceX's April 2026 pre-IPO worth amid limited financials, fueling speculation of a trillion-dollar future as launch rates soar.

On social media, X is ablaze with gossip: users are hyping the Cursor deal as Elon Musk's ploy to dominate AI in space, with memes joking "Starlink now beams code, not just cat videos." Insiders whisper of internal Colossus upgrades outpacing rivals, while skeptics decry the $60 billion buyout as Musk's latest moonshot overreach. Starlink fans celebrate the Vandenberg launch with drone-ship landing clips going viral, tallying millions of views, and rumors swirl of an unannounced Starship test imminent.

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SpaceX Launches 24 Starlink Satellites While Announcing $10 Billion AI Partnership With Cursor