Musk Wants to Build AI Satellites on the Moon, Launch Them by Catapult
xAI's all-hands meeting revealed Elon Musk's plan for a lunar factory and giant catapult to deploy AI satellites.
Elon Musk just dropped another wild vision on his xAI employees: build a factory on the moon to manufacture AI satellites, then fling them into orbit with a massive catapult.
The plan emerged during an all-hands meeting at xAI, where Musk laid out his ambitious concept for off-world manufacturing and deployment infrastructure.
A lunar catapult makes some theoretical sense. The moon's low gravity means launching objects requires far less energy than Earth-based systems. No atmosphere means no drag. But actually building manufacturing facilities on the lunar surface? That's a whole different engineering nightmare.
Musk's xAI has been aggressively expanding its AI ambitions, and apparently those ambitions now extend roughly 238,900 miles from Earth. Whether this represents serious planning or classic Musk blue-sky thinking remains unclear.