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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...
Mar 30, 2026
Transporter-16 lifted off from Vandenberg SFB carrying 119 payloads from dozens of commercial, academic, and government customers. This was the 16th dedicated Transporter mission and 21st in SpaceX...
Mar 30, 2026
Starcloud closed a $170 million Series A led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures, hitting $1.1 billion and becoming the fastest YC graduate to reach unicorn status (17 months from demo day). The company ...
Mar 30, 2026
Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs granted FDI approval for Rocket Lab's approximately $150 million acquisition of laser communications specialist Mynaric AG. Closing expected in April...
Mar 30, 2026
CAS Space successfully launched Kinetica-2 from Jiuquan, delivering three satellites including a prototype of the Qingzhou commercial cargo spacecraft for the Tiangong space station. Kinetica-2 is ...
Mar 29, 2026
Starlink-34343 suffered an on-orbit malfunction at approximately 560 km, generating dozens of tracked debris fragments. LeoLabs attributed the event to an internal energetic source rather than a co...
Mar 28, 2026
Starship Flight 12, the maiden flight of V3 with Raptor 3 engines, has slipped from Musk's early-April target to a late April window. Booster 19 completed a 10-engine static fire on Pad 2 on March ...
Mar 27, 2026
Space solar startup Aetherflux, founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, is in talks to raise $250 to $350 million in a Series B led by Index Ventures at a $2 billion valuation, per The Wall St...
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