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SpaceX targets a self-growing lunar city within ten years

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Elon Musk announced a shift toward building a self-growing city on the Moon within ten years, delaying Mars, and confirmed plans to use mass drivers to shoot lunar material into deep space for solar-powered AI satellites, calling a slowly disintegrating moon an incredible visual.

Reporting date: 2026-02-09 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 9, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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SpaceX begins hiring for orbital datacenters

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SpaceX targets a self-growing lunar city within ten years
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Reporting date: 2026-02-09
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-09-self-growing-city-on-the-moon
Claim: Elon Musk announced a shift toward building a self-growing city on the Moon within ten years, delaying Mars, and confirmed plans to use mass drivers to shoot lunar material into deep space for solar-powered AI satellites, calling a slowly disintegrating moon an incredible visual.
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- Welcome to February 9, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-9-2026
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