Launch costs have fallen forty-fold, yet most satellites still cannot decide without a human in the loop. Why autonomy, not hardware, is new space’s real bottleneck.
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There is no contradiction between those two outcomes. Starship reached several major milestones while also encountering problems that forced the mission to end early. The real story of the flight lies in how those successes and failures unfolded together.
Starship Flight 14 put the world’s largest rocket into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites after 13 suborbital flights. Here is how the launch went.
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On August 5, a long-anticipated event will unfold nearly 385,000 kilometers from Earth. A discarded upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to slam into the lunar surface after spending more than a year drifting through cislunar space.
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In March 2002, a little-known aerospace startup was born in a warehouse in El Segundo, California. Its founder, entrepreneur Elon Musk, had a vision that many considered unrealistic: dramatically reduce the cost of access to space and ultimately make humanity a multi-planetary species.
Cover Image: SpaceX Launch IPO – Credits SpaceX The upcoming public debut of SpaceX under the ticker symbol SPCX is shaping up to be one of the most consequential events in modern financial history. With a valuation approaching $1.75 trillion and an offering expected to raise approximately $75 billion, SpaceX is not only preparing for
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SpaceX was originally awarded the sole Human Landing System (HLS) contract in 2021, valued at nearly $3 billion, to develop a lunar variant of its Starship vehicle.
Starship Flight 11 stands as a dramatic and fitting finale for the Block 2 era — validating maturation of the design, showcasing advanced control and landing strategies, and clearing the runway for the next generation of Starship.
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As the ninth integrated test of the Starship launch system, the mission was designed as a data-rich experiment, combining ambitious objectives with a high tolerance for risk—hallmarks of the program’s iterative approach. Flight 9: Testing the Next Evolution of Starship Vehicle Configuration and Objectives Flight 9 launched using Booster 14-2 (its second and final flight)
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On May 27, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. Central Time, SpaceX is scheduled to conduct the ninth flight test of its Starship system from Starbase, Texas. This mission represents a major milestone in the company’s pursuit of scalable, routine access to space and the long-term goal of making life multiplanetary. First Reflight of a Super Heavy
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