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Apr 07, 2026
Intel announced it is joining Elon Musk's Terafab project alongside Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. Terafab is a joint venture for a vertically integrated semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas, combining...
Apr 06, 2026
A violent Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of a Starship component was captured on camera at SpaceX's Boca Chica facility. Starbase observer Zack Golden described it as among the most dramatic RUDs se...
Apr 04, 2026
ULA's Atlas V launched Amazon Leo 5 from Cape Canaveral, deploying 29 Kuiper satellites, the heaviest payload ever flown on an Atlas V. ULA has now delivered 139 Amazon Leo satellites total. Amazon...
Apr 03, 2026
Space Pioneer's Tianlong-3, a Falcon 9-class partially reusable rocket powered by nine TH-12 engines, failed approximately 33 seconds after liftoff from Jiuquan on its inaugural flight. The vehicle...
Apr 02, 2026
Effective April 1, new U.S. and Canadian customers in select service areas can sign up for Starlink Residential at $35/month for 100 Mbps (down from $50), $65/month for 200 Mbps, and $105/month for...
Apr 02, 2026
NASA's SLS rocket launched the Orion spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center at 6:35 PM EDT, carrying four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby: NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, p...
Apr 02, 2026
SpaceX submitted a confidential S-1 registration to the SEC on April 1, putting it on track for a June Nasdaq listing. The company is targeting a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion and aims ...
We model Starship's cost per kilogram under two recovery modes and map the results against the launch cost thresholds from our orbital compute crossover analysis. The finding: booster reuse, already demonstrated, gets Starship more than halfway to the base case. Ship reuse, which SpaceX is sequencing toward with V3, crosses that threshold on the first reflight.
Starship cost/kg and orbital compute cost scenarios
Apr 01, 2026
Space Pioneer's Tianlong-3, a 71-meter, 9-engine, LOX/kerosene reusable rocket that closely mirrors Falcon 9 in dimensions and engine layout, is targeting an April 3 maiden flight from Jiuquan. It ...
Mar 30, 2026
Booster B1067 launched for a record-breaking 34th time from Cape Canaveral, deploying 29 Starlink satellites and landing on the droneship Just Read the Instructions. The booster has been in service...
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