SpaceX's fully reusable super-heavy-lift rocket, pairing the Super Heavy booster with the Starship upper stage for orbital payloads and crews.
FAA says it will prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement on SpaceX's request to fly Starship 456 times a year from Starbase, up from 25. The review is at an early stage, and public scoping meetings run Nov. 17 to 19.
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SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time on Sept. 28, its 14th test flight, carrying the first Starlink V3 satellites, space.com reported. Whether Starlink is a detour from Mars or the destination is where its two quoted analysts part ways.
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SeAH Besteel's U.S. unit will start commercial production at its $110 million Texas superalloy plant in the first half of next year. It is betting that engine makers stuck in year-long queues at incumbent suppliers will qualify a newcomer, though no SpaceX order for the plant has been confirmed.
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SpaceX put Starship into orbit on its first orbital flight even after one of the upper stage's six Raptor engines shut down early. It sets up the orbital refuelling tests NASA's 2028 moon landing depends on, though those tests and an upper-stage catch are still ahead.
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Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas told clients to buy SpaceX before Starship Flight 15, with a $300 target about 75% above Monday's $171.09 close. Tying the call to dates means it gets checked twice within weeks, first by the test flight and then by third-quarter results expected in late October.
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Elon Musk's net worth passed $1 trillion again on Monday, Forbes estimated, after SpaceX shares rose nearly 8% to $171.09. Swings of tens of billions a session now show up in a quoted price, and so far the reporting measures them only through his own wealth.
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ARK's Brett Winton says each Starship flight could add over $700 million of annual SpaceX revenue, a figure tied to ARK's $2.5 trillion 2030 valuation. At about $2.0 trillion, SPCX already trades at 80% of that target while AI contracts bring in close to $2.2 billion a month, more than launches earn.
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Google's orbital compute paper needs Starship to lift 370,000 tons to reach $200-a-kilogram launches, about 180 flights a year for a decade. Its first TPU in orbit will run in 15-minute bursts while Google tests whether a satellite can supply a kilowatt of steady power and keep the chip cool.
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Anatolii Papulov of NewOrbit says satellite launch lead times have reached 30 to 36 months, up from about 12 a year ago. The figure is one start-up's experience, though Quilty Space analyst Caleb Henry also calls the shortage a crisis with several causes besides Falcon 9.
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SpaceX flew Starship to orbit for the first time on September 28, deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites despite one of the upper stage's six engines going out at liftoff. The flight moves the vehicle closer to the operational heavy-lift launcher NASA and SpaceX are counting on.
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SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time on September 28 and deployed 26 working Starlink V3 satellites, each built to add 1 Tbps of capacity. Buyers can count on that capacity this quarter, while teams hoping to book Starship for their own payloads have one partial orbital flight to judge it by.
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SpaceX's Starship Flight 14 will try to reach orbit for the first time carrying 26 Starlink V3 satellites that together add about 26 Tbps of capacity. For a company valued near $2 trillion, it tests how much one launch can lift, while the cost of each launch still depends on reuse.
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A White House memo asks federal agencies to clear the way to 1,000 US launches and re-entries a year by 2030, from 178. The scarce input is range frequency and airspace, not hardware.
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The orbital compute startup added an extension to its Series A largely to buy launch capacity before Falcon 9 retires in 2028, according to CEO Philip Johnston.
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SpaceX will not commit to flying Crew Dragon much beyond 2030, and its president says Boeing should fly its own capsule. NASA is responding by paying to make Starliner flightworthy on a rocket it does not yet have.
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Flight 14 opens its window on 22 September carrying real payload for the first time, though neither stage will attempt a landing and Starship is flying at roughly four a year against the 25 test flights SpaceX officials once hoped for.
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SpaceX will let flight controllers decide during the coast phase whether Starship circularizes on Flight 14, a check that stands between the company and both V3 satellite deployment at scale and in-space refueling tests.
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Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital led a $1 billion Series E at roughly $10 billion. The money funds two clean-sheet rockets in parallel: Pathfinder in 2027 and the 14-engine Block 2 in 2029.
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Starbase Louisiana turns Starship scaling into a fixed-capex problem. At 30 flights a day the pads cost about $913,000 a launch to amortize; at 1,000 flights a year they cost $10 million.
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The advisory firm's range runs $343 billion to $566 billion through 2050. The $223 billion between those numbers is a bet on water ice, helium-3 and lunar data centres, and SpaceX now marks it quarterly.
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