Billionaire Elon Musk has endorsed Republican former President Donald Trump in the race for the White House, but employees at his collection of companies are largely donating to Trump's Democratic rival Kamala Harris.

Elon Musk endorses Donald Trump for the upcoming US presidential election, contrasting with his employees at Tesla, SpaceX, and X who support Kamala Harris. OpenSecrets data reveals significant donations from employees to Harris's campaign.

Elon Musk has endorsed Donald Trump in the race for the White House, but employees at his collection of companies are largely donating to Kamala Harris.

SpaceX pushed one of its most-used boosters to its limits with a launch Tuesday evening from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A Falcon 9 rocket using a booster for the 22nd time managed a successful recovery landing even though it was used to fly its payload,

With the previous Galileo launch this year, SpaceX disposed of the booster, which means allowing it to drop unrecovered into the Atlantic Ocean, to allow for additional power to get the satellites into their intended orbit.

SpaceX is watching the weather ahead of Tuesday's Falcon 9 launch of the European Commission's Galileo L13 mission, which will carry its navigation satellite constellation to medium Earth orbit.