SpaceX completed its 50th Starlink launch of 2026 today. With this mission, SpaceX has deployed 1,375 Starlink satellites so far this year, and another Starlink launch is scheduled for later tonight.
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Less than 45 minutes until Falcon 9's launch of the Transporter-16 rideshare mission. Webcast will go live about 15 minutes before liftoff → https://t.co/GFh4DrTMKP
Delivering 119 satellites to orbit at once!
Falcon 9, which can carry ~20 tons to orbit (with a reusable booster & fairing), is a “heavy” class rocket by conventional standards.
Given that I have built two companies in widely different fields to trillion dollar plus valuations simultaneously, I am might be getting a few things right once in a while
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SpaceX filed for 1M orbital data center satellites
Starcloud (NVIDIA-backed) filed for 88K sats
Blue Origin just filed for 51K sats.
These aren’t sci-fi sketches, they’re FCC filings.
First nodes of a solar-harnessing swarm are deploying soon.
The Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission arrived to the launch pad today at 11:21am ET (1521 UTC).
We are gearing up for preparations ahead of launch of the crewed lunar mission. The earliest possible launch opportunity is April 1. https://t.co/zSgvJMCzXL