Patrick H

Space Manufacturing Systems Engineer | Advancing aerospace manufacturing through automation, precision engineering, scalable systems, and flight-ready hardware.

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BREAKING: Elon Musk has just announced that Starship is only 2–3 years away from hourly flights.

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We’ll have a base on the Moon sooner than most people think.

[Patrick H @PatrickH4f]

It’s been a really rough couple of days for me and my family, and honestly, it hasn’t been easy. Through all the stress, pain, and uncertainty, I’ve been reminded of how much it means to have people who genuinely care.

I want to sincerely thank everyone who stood by us, checked in, reached out, prayed for us, supported us, or simply reminded us that we weren’t alone. Every message, call, kind word, and gesture meant more than you may ever know.

I’m truly grateful from the bottom of my heart. May God bless and reward everyone who stood with my family and me during this difficult time. We will never forget your love and support.

[Patrick H @PatrickH4f]

BREAKING: Elon Musk on Chinese President Xi Jinping in his new interview with CCTV Finance:

“He seems like a great leader. Under his tenure, China has prospered immensely. I've seen it firsthand. If you visit China and you see the amount of progress that happens from one year to the next, or even within a year, it's very visible. Like, you can see the new buildings, the new infrastructure.

And it's also obvious to see that just walking around the streets, the increased prosperity of the average Chinese citizen has increased tremendously. All that seems happened under President Xi's, you know, while he's been the leader of China. So he's clearly done an excellent job and is very capable.”

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BREAKING: Peru’s Ministry of Justice and Human Rights has delivered @Starlink kits to Indigenous Shipibo and Kakataibo guards, helping 14 bases across Ucayali, Loreto and Huánuco stay connected, monitor territory, and quickly report risks. 🇵🇪

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BREAKING: Grok 4.7 is now available on Grok Build.

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BREAKING: SpaceXAI just released Grok 4.7!

Grok 4.7 is SpaceXAI’s most powerful model for coding and knowledge work. It is designed to work longer on difficult tasks, handle more context and carefully check its own work.

Major improvements:

• Uses a new and larger base model
• Trained longer on harder, multi-hour tasks
• Better at verifying its own answers
• Improved long-context performance
• Better at documents and presentations
• Natively understands the Grok Bot system
• Stronger safety and jailbreak protection
Benchmark results:
• CursorBench 4.0: 46.3%, up from 40.4%
• DeepSWE v1.1: 71.0%, up from 65.2%
• AA Briefcase v1.1: 1,657, up from 1,546
• Terminal-Bench 4.0: 38.0%, up from 20.3%
• Harvey Legal Benchmark: 19.6%, up from 15.8%
• HealthBench Professional: 56.7%, up from 48.5%
• EEBench: 64.0%, up from 53.0%
Grok 4.7 also scored higher than GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5.1 on the listed legal and electrical engineering benchmarks.
Safety improvements:
• 62.4% on LatchBio’s biosafety benchmark
• Only 3.3% of risky cyber prompts passed through on HackerBench
• SpaceXAI’s strongest model yet for refusing dangerous requests
• Rarely blocks legitimate cybersecurity work
• Select security partners are receiving invite-only red-team access
Pricing and availability:

• $2 per million input tokens
• $6 per million output tokens
• Same base price as Grok 4.6
• Fast version offers twice the output speed at twice the price
• Available now in Cursor, Grok Build and the Grok API
• Also available through coding tools, model routers and cloud platforms

SpaceXAI says Grok 4.7 is twice as fast and half the price of comparable models.
It beats Grok 4.6 across every listed benchmark while keeping the same base API price. Smarter, safer, stronger and still incredibly affordable.

SpaceXAI is moving at an unbelievable speed.

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BREAKING: SpaceX CFO says Grok is progressing faster than any of its competitors, while Grok Bot is growing faster than anything the company has ever seen.

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BREAKING: NASA awards SpaceX $946 million for three more crew flights to the ISS.

SpaceX will fly Crew-15, Crew-16 and Crew-17, bringing its total NASA crew missions to 17. This deal covers launch, orbit, return, recovery, cargo and lifeboat services through 2030.

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Europe’s first official Tesla Semi order has been placed 🇨🇭

Swiss trucking company Käppeli Logistik ordered the truck at IAA Transportation, seven years after its 2019 pre-order at Tesla’s Fremont factory.

It will join the company’s fleet in 2027.

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BREAKING: Federal judge denies OpenAI’s bid to see Apple’s confidential settlement with Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI and X Corp.

The court reviewed the agreement and rejected OpenAI’s request. 🔥

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Elon Musk could sleep anywhere, yet he always chooses to stay close to his work.

He recently revealed that he is living in an Airstream trailer in Memphis while helping expand SpaceXAI’s infrastructure.

This is not new for Elon. He has lived this way for three decades:

• Zip2: Elon slept in the office and showered at the YMCA while working on his first company.

• Tesla: The Fremont and Nevada factories were his primary residence for three years. He slept on a couch, in a tent on the roof and on the floor beneath his desk, where workers changing shifts could see that he was there with them.

• Twitter/𝕏: After the acquisition, he sometimes slept on a couch inside the seventh-floor library at headquarters.

• DOGE: He slept inside the government office across from the White House during its early push.

• SpaceXAI: He is living in an Airstream in Memphis while personally helping expand the infrastructure.

Elon goes to the biggest bottleneck, lives beside it and works until it is solved.

That is why he keeps accomplishing what others call impossible.

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🚨NICK SHIRLEY: “If it wasn't for Elon and 𝕏, none of this would have been possible. I post that video about the fraud on YouTube. It gets a few million views. On 𝕏, it got 140 million views, and the most important people in the world see it.”

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BREAKING: Ecuador’s government expands free @Starlink internet. 🇪🇨

Carchi now has 42 Digital Points after openings in Santiaguillo and San Pedro de Huaca. Residents can access free Starlink internet, computers and 450+ training topics.

Starlink is bringing education and opportunity where it’s needed most.

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BREAKING: SpaceXAI just released Grok Build v1.0.36 with new dashboard controls, live background task streaming, and major bug fixes.

This update adds a dashboard preview toggle, stronger organization policy controls, and live streaming for background shell commands. It also fixes sandbox trust, pinned agents, configuration handling, MCP authentication, and background subagent approvals.

Release Notes

1.0.36 — 2026-09-17

Features

• New Dashboard preview setting lets you hide the selected-session preview panel on the dashboard.
• New policy setting allows organizations to disable hooks that are not from managed policy.
• Background shell commands now appear as live task rows with streaming output.

Bug Fixes

• grok --sandbox no longer exits when accepting folder trust.
• Pinned agents in the dashboard no longer jump when their activity changes.
• Swift code with triple-quoted strings now highlights correctly in the pager.
• Mixed-case reasoning_effort values (e.g. "xHigh") are now accepted in config.toml.
• Fixed accidental empty agent sessions when pressing Enter right after sending from the dashboard.
• Fixed default TUI sessions so an [agent] set in config.toml is respected instead of always using a builtin plan.
• MCP plugin authentication now succeeds for servers that declare a client ID in their manifest.
• Shell command approvals from background subagents are now shown instead of being silently rejected.

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BREAKING: The U.S. Space Force is giving @SpaceX freedom to choose the design and satellite count for its military data network. 🇺🇸

This is a huge vote of confidence in SpaceX’s unmatched ability to build the best system at speed and scale.

The $2.2B deal was awarded in May.

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A fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. “The Holy Grail of Rocketry” continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you onboard a high-seas race to recover a floating Starship

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BREAKING: SpaceX’s Starlink satellites performed 207,152 proactive collision-avoidance maneuvers in just six months.

The advanced autonomous system:

• Detects potential close approaches
• Calculates the level of risk
• Adjusts orbital paths when needed
• Acts at a highly cautious threshold of just 3 in 10 million

SpaceX is managing the world’s largest satellite constellation with precision, automation and a safety-first approach.

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BREAKING: Ookla identified @Starlink as one of the biggest performance developments in its entire H1 2026 U.S. broadband report.

• 40% of U.S. Starlink Speedtest users reached the FCC benchmark, up from 18.9% in H1 2025.

• The increase equals 21.1 percentage points, approximately 112% growth, and 2.12 times the year-earlier share.

• 17 states now have at least half of Starlink users reaching 100/20 Mbps.

• Those 17 states represent more than one-third of all U.S. states.

• The number of majority-performing states increased 3.4 times in half a year.

• South Dakota ranked first, with 58.2% of Starlink Speedtest users reaching 100/20 Mbps.

• Rural Starlink users recorded better performance than urban Starlink users in 26 states.

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Happy Engineers’ Day!

As Elon Musk says, “Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the real world.”