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SpaceX agreed to buy nationwide 800 MHz spectrum from Grain Management, a deal the WSJ put at $8 billion. The low band signal goes through walls, and Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile stocks fell 10 to 13 percent on Friday.
Speaking at X Takeover at Giga Texas on Saturday, Elon Musk said Starship Flight 15 is hopefully 4 to 6 weeks out, likely before Thanksgiving, and will try to catch the upper stage for the first full recovery of an orbital class rocket.
Five days after a last-minute abort, Falcon 9 launched 21 Northrop Grumman satellites for the Space Development Agency early Oct. 10. That makes 84 of 126 Tranche 1 data satellites now in orbit.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 6:33 a.m. ET Tuesday, Oct. 13, for CRS-35. Dragon carries more than 6,300 pounds to the space station, including the last pair of new solar arrays and experiments that build artificial retinas, heart tissue, and brain organoids in orbit.
On Oct. 9, Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the airline passed on Starlink over business terms, not Elon Musk, calling SpaceX's Wi-Fi 'fabulous.' Delta is sticking with Amazon Leo starting in 2028, a day after American said it will put Starlink on its whole mainline fleet.
NASA is targeting no earlier than 8:05 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 7, for Crew-12 to leave the station. Splashdown off California is about 11:34 a.m. EDT Thursday. The crew has been up since Feb. 14.
NASA says Dragon docked to Harmony's forward port at 7:05 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1. The hatch opened at 9:19 p.m. EDT. That trip is the fastest U.S. launch-to-docking in station history.
SpaceX lists SDA's fourth Tranche 1 data transport mission for 1:17 a.m. PT Oct. 5 from Vandenberg. The backup is 1:08 a.m. PT Oct. 6. Falcon 9 is set to put 21 satellites into the fourth orbital plane.
SpaceX still lists NROL-97 for 11:53 p.m. ET on Oct. 1 from Kennedy LC-39A. The backup is 11:48 p.m. ET on Oct. 2. The two side boosters are planned to land at LZ-1 and LZ-2.
SpaceX's own writeup says a Raptor vacuum engine quit on the way up, all 26 Starlink V3 satellites checked in, and Ship did its first deorbit burn before a three-engine splashdown.
Flight 14 put Starship in orbit for the first time on Sept. 28, deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and splashed down north of Hawaii a little over three hours after liftoff.
The FAA license for Starship's first orbital attempt was reported issued late Saturday. Here's the Monday window at Pad 2, and the booster and heat shield fixes SpaceX is actually testing.
NASA and SpaceX polled go on Sept. 25: Falcon 9 from SLC-40 no earlier than 11:10 a.m. EDT Oct. 1, with Watkins, Delaney, Kutryk, and Teteryatnikov.
SpaceX retargeted its first orbital Starship attempt to as early as Monday, Sept. 28 — still pending regulatory approval. What that phrase means in the week before the window.
SpaceX is aiming Starship at Earth orbit for the first time — ~275 km, ~6 orbits, 26 Starlink V3 — with the FAA license still the gate and the window now sliding toward Sept. 28.
Aug. 27: SpaceX finished inspecting Flight 13’s Ship 40 off Christmas Island, bagged heatshield samples, and loaded the scorched ship onto a semi-submersible for a months-long crawl back to Texas.