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Updated September 25, 2026 · 506 stories from 8 outlets
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Google will launch its first Project Suncatcher AI satellite on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare next week.
Transporter and Bandwagon are SpaceX's rideshare missions: one rocket splitting its payload bay among many small satellites from different customers.
SpaceX finished Starship's Flight 14 rehearsal, clearing the way for its first orbital flight Monday.
Starship is the fully reusable rocket SpaceX builds and flies at Starbase: the Super Heavy booster plus the Starship upper stage, stacked about 400 feet tall.
The inclusion of the upper stage, tail number Ship 41, comes ahead of a probable fueling demonstration planned in the days leading up to a launch attempt. Starship Flight 14 is scheduled for no...
SpaceX numbers each airframe rather than each flight, so a headline about Ship 40 or Booster 21 is about one specific vehicle, not the mission number.
Exolaunch, a company best known for arranging launches of satellites, is moving into microgravity research services by buying a SpaceX Starfall mission.
Surviving reentry is the hard part of reusing the upper stage: it comes back through plasma hot enough to strip the ceramic tiles that protect the hull.
Starbase officials approved the massive annexation of its city limits expanding its boundaries past 8,000 acres.
Starbase is wedged between a state park and a national wildlife refuge, so SpaceX expanding its footprint there means land swaps and beach access fights, not just construction.
SpaceX rolled Ship 41 to the launch site for stacking with Booster 21, and the...
SpaceX numbers each airframe rather than each flight, so a headline about Ship 40 or Booster 21 is about one specific vehicle, not the mission number.
The first planned orbital Starship mission is scheduled for launch from Starbase in Texas as soon as Sept. 28, pending final approval from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Super Heavy is the first stage, the part that does the initial lift and then either splashes down offshore or flies back to be caught by the tower arms.
PARIS, The satellite industry is coming to grips with SpaceX’s plans to end commercial Falcon 9 launches in the next few years, creating a significant, if temporary, gap in access to orbit.
Falcon 9 is the workhorse: a partly reusable two-stage rocket that flies most weeks from Florida and California, and the vehicle Starship is eventually meant to replace.
For some time now, the Ukrainian government has been seeking SpaceX’s authorization for the use of Starlink up to 200 kilometers inside Russia. Starlink has long provided high-speed connectivity to...
Starlink is SpaceX's satellite internet constellation. It is the payload on most Falcon 9 launches, which is why those flights come in such steady batches.
SpaceX’s disk-shaped Starfall reentry capsule, first flown on Falcon 9 in June, now has two...
Surviving reentry is the hard part of reusing the upper stage: it comes back through plasma hot enough to strip the ceramic tiles that protect the hull.
A total of five orbital launches are scheduled this week. SpaceX will launch its Falcon...
Falcon 9 is the workhorse: a partly reusable two-stage rocket that flies most weeks from Florida and California, and the vehicle Starship is eventually meant to replace.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has established a Temporary Flight Restriction over SpaceX’s McGregor, Texas, rocket development and test facility, a move widely viewed as preparation for...
Starbase flights are gated by federal and county sign-off: the FAA licenses the launch, and Cameron County posts the Highway 4 and beach closures that go with it.
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral), A federal judge on Monday denied conservation groups’ attempt to pause a land swap between the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge and SpaceX. In a...
Starbase is wedged between a state park and a national wildlife refuge, so SpaceX expanding its footprint there means land swaps and beach access fights, not just construction.
Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled during a window that opens at 6:47 p.m. PDT (9:47 p.m. EDT / 0147 UTC). It will be the 81st Starlink mission of the year.
Falcon 9 is the workhorse: a partly reusable two-stage rocket that flies most weeks from Florida and California, and the vehicle Starship is eventually meant to replace.
NASA just gave SpaceX a $946 million contract for three more astronaut missions through 2030.
Crew and cargo runs to the International Space Station are the flights with people or perishable science aboard, which is why their schedules slip far less than test flights do.
TAMPA, Fla., The third and final terabit-class ViaSat-3 broadband satellite has entered service over the Americas, the U.S. operator announced Sept. 17, days after SpaceX launched the final three...
PARIS, NASA has proceeded with plans to purchase three additional SpaceX Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station, although the spacecraft’s long-term future remains uncertain.
Dragon is the capsule that carries cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station, currently the only US vehicle flying crew there.
TAMPA, Fla., SpaceX’s industry-shaking IPO more than three months ago continues to have far-reaching and mixed effects for other satellite broadband operators.
Financial coverage of SpaceX matters here for one reason: launch and Starlink revenue is what pays for the Starship program being tested at Starbase.
SpaceX is now targeting Starship Flight 14 no earlier than Monday, September 28, pending regulatory...
Starship is the fully reusable rocket SpaceX builds and flies at Starbase: the Super Heavy booster plus the Starship upper stage, stacked about 400 feet tall.
SpaceX is now targeting Sept. 28 for Starship Flight 14 from Starbase, a nearly 10-hour mission planned to send the spacecraft around Earth six times.
Starship is the fully reusable rocket SpaceX builds and flies at Starbase: the Super Heavy booster plus the Starship upper stage, stacked about 400 feet tall.
Tesla and SpaceX sue a small Illinois firm after cease and desist letters over Terafab.
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral), SpaceX pushed back the target date for its next launch by several days and is now eyeing Monday, Sept. 28, for its Starship 14 test flight. The flight is still...
PARIS, Space Cargo Unlimited has signed a contract to fly payloads on SpaceX’s Starfall reentry vehicle as it builds out a broad spectrum of options for microgravity research and manufacturing.
Surviving reentry is the hard part of reusing the upper stage: it comes back through plasma hot enough to strip the ceramic tiles that protect the hull.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., The U.S. Space Force is giving SpaceX latitude to design one of the military’s new low-Earth orbit satellite networks, setting performance requirements rather than prescribing...
Military launch contracts are the steadiest money in the business, awarded in blocks years ahead, and they are a large part of what funds development work like Starship.
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