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No Starship flew in October, and it shows in the mass-to-orbit. It was all Falcon: 11 launches (10 Falcon 9, 1 Falcon Heavy) lifting about 134 t. That's down from ~148 t in September and ~200 t in August.

She arrived at the Starbase production site early on 11 Oct (Texas time). Since then she's been lifted back to vertical and now stands in Megabay 2 alongside Ships 42, 43 and 44. SpaceX says she'll provide

Building 20 Starships a week with rapid reuse scales past 10,000 launches a year. That's ~27 to 32 flights a day, lifting 1.5M to 2.0M tonnes to orbit. The real puzzle is where all that payload would come

Flight 15 could be the first dual catch: booster back to the tower, then the ship caught by the same tower later in the mission. Here's how I picture the sequence, time-lapsed. The booster gets moved off

Building 20 Starships a week with rapid reuse scales past 10,000 launches a year. Here is my best-guess breakdown of where all those flights go. The full article with the numbers is on my PeakD blog

Welcome back, and a warm welcome to everyone once again. I hope you are all doing very well. Today, I want to talk about something purely born from my own deep curiosity. Sitting quietly in the serene

I've been thinking about... Mars... would I really go if the seat was offered? It seems like it would be a great adventure, yet it's going to be really hard to start with. Even with Optimus androids doing

What a contrast. For the Artemis moon landing, two astronauts will go to the surface in Starship, while two remain in the Orion capsule in LL0 during the mission. Two land and live in total luxury in the

So the question of the day is: On Artemis IV, what happens to the Starship HLS once the crew transfers back to Orion at step 15? NASA's chart stops tracking it after Orion undocks, and with no heat shield

One Time for Every World - How I keep time across Earth and Mars, and the date I'm counting down to If you've seen "Today is CSD ..." at the top of my posts and wondered what the number means,

Do I see 6, 7 or 8 new Starship nose cones being built at the same time? This image from today's NASA update.

Die neue Tesla Roadster Demo war ein Schock-Moment für die deutsche Autoindustrie. Während Europa es lange Zeit nicht einmal geschafft hat, ein sexy aussehendes Elektroauto zu fertigen, arbeitet Tesla

Could Crew Dragon outlive Falcon 9? Yes... Here's how: Launched inside Starship. Deployed to complete mission then returns as normal. The logic is plain. Getting Starship certified to launch people is

KiwiThinker Flashback Today is CSD 3445.8421, Oct 18 2026 Two years ago I said Starship could start putting Starlinks up before SpaceX recovered a single ship. Flight 14 last month did just that: first

So the question of the day is: would any country let the fully kitted Roadster near a public road? Thrusters and all. Not for a stunt, just for the moment something's in the way and you need to hop clear.

Get the noun right Let's get the descriptions right. Starship mission profile flights versus space infrastructure ones. Let's talk about old think vs new reality. Starship tankers are not part of the mission

So the question of the day is: who gives way, the rockets or the planes? SpaceX is asking for up to 456 Starship launches a year from Starbase. At that pace a closure stops being a one-off and starts looking

13,000 Starlink satellites launched. That number still takes a moment to sink in. The milestone came with Group 15-25, 27 V2 Mini satellites off Vandenberg at 1:28pm NZDT on Tue 13 Oct, on B1088's 20th

Could Ship 40 be reused? Yes in theory. It survived the full flight profile, a soft splashdown, weeks floating in the Indian Ocean, and the long trip home on Forte. The stainless steel held together and

So the question of the day is: Will Ship 40 ever fly again? First Ship to come home intact. 75 days at sea. Now it is back at Starbase. Re-fly it. Cut it open. Put it on a stand. Or something else?