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SpaceX Starship Flight 10: Comeback Mission Validates V3 Starlink Deployment
SpaceX’s Starship Flight 10 delivered a major breakthrough. On August 26, Booster 16 and Ship 37 lifted off from Starbase and executed all primary objectives: ascent, hot-stage separation, booster boost-back and splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, o...View Commentary -
SpaceX postpones Starship Flight 10 over ground‑system issue
SpaceX delayed its tenth Starship test flight, originally scheduled for 24 August, due to a malfunction in ground‑systems at its Starbase facility in Texas. The mission had already entered fueling stages and was intended to test upgrades to heat s...View Commentary -
SpaceX Launches X‑37B Spaceplane on Falcon 9
A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched the U.S. Space Force’s X‑37B Orbital Test Vehicle - its eighth mission - from Kennedy Space Center last night. The flight marked another demonstration of first-stage reusability with a clean booster landing,...View Commentary -
Starship Flight 10 Nears Launch
SpaceX has moved its Super Heavy booster to the pad at Starbase, setting up for Starship’s 10th test flight on Sunday. The step highlights a ramping test cadence as production scales, but also follows a series of explosive setbacks that have weigh...View Commentary -
California Puts Brakes on SpaceX’s Bigger West Coast Cadence
California’s Coastal Commission voted to oppose SpaceX’s plan to nearly double Falcon 9 launches and add Falcon Heavy operations out of Vandenberg, flagging noise, wildlife, and beach-access impacts even as the U.S. Air Force maintains federal pre...View Commentary -
SpaceX hits 100th launch of the year with Amazon’s Kuiper KF-02
A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 11 August 8:35 a.m. ET, carrying 24 Project Kuiper satellites, marking SpaceX’s 100th mission of 2025. The booster landed on the droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas,” and deployment is slated over ~56 mi...View Commentary -
Crew-11 Launch Set for 11:43 a.m. ET, August 1st
[Update: Due to cumulus cloud presence, the flight was delayed and subsequently set for 11:4m a.m., August 1.]NASA and SpaceX rolled Dragon Endeavour and its Falcon 9 to Pad 39A overnight and aim to lift four Expedition 73 crew members to the ISS ...View Commentary -
Starship Ship 37 Static-Fires Cleanly, Paving Way for Flight 10
SpaceX ignited a single Raptor on Ship 37 at Starbase for a brief static-fire, validating upgrades to the deluge system installed after Flight 8. No pad damage or engine anomalies were reported. Elon Musk said Flight 10 could occur in mid-August o...View Commentary -
Crew-11 Rocket Rolled Out and Raised on Pad 39A
Overnight Sunday, a Falcon 9 topped with Dragon Endeavour rolled from the Horizontal Integration Facility to Launch Complex 39A and was erected vertical before sunrise. NASA confirmed propellant-loading and launch-day communications checks were co...View Commentary -
SpaceX Wallet Relocates 1,308 BTC (~$153 M) in First Activity Since 2022
Arkham Intelligence flagged a transfer of 1,308 Bitcoin from a wallet it associates with SpaceX to a new address, the account’s first outbound move in more than three years. At current prices above $118 k, the coins were worth about $153 million. ...View Commentary
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