Friends, a classified payload means there is plenty we cannot say about a launch. But this one gives me a familiar favorite to celebrate: Of Course I Still Love You, waiting in the Pacific to bring a Falcon 9 booster safely home. Liftoff From Vandenberg SpaceX launched the U.S. Space Forceβs USSF-432 mission on Friday,…
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Lost in Commissioning: Starfish Space’s First Otter Goes Silent π¦¦π°οΈ
Starfish Space’s first full-size Otter, a NASA-funded spacecraft built to sneak up on dead satellites and inspect them, has gone quiet for good. A software safety system switched off its own radio. Here’s what happened and why the satellite-servicing dream isn’t over.
700 and Counting: Falcon 9 Hits a Huge Milestone on Halloween Eve ππ
SpaceX’s workhorse just flew for the 700th time, on a spooky-season Starlink run from California. Here’s what that number really means, the booster that made it happen, and why Falcon 9’s story is starting its final chapters as Starship takes the stage.


