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Blue Origin has secured a contract worth up to $700M to build a telecommunications network around Mars to support future missions and establish a communications backbone.
Elon Musk affirmed a comparison highlighting Starship V3's superior payload capacity over multiple Falcon 1 launches, emphasizing the need for such vehicles to scale orbital AI operations.
Elon Musk announces SpaceX's full-duration 33-engine static fire test with the Super Heavy booster, preparing for Flight 14 and highlighting it as the most powerful moving object ever made by humans.
The European Space Agency has awarded funding to several European launch startups to support their rocket development, while the article also discusses SpaceX's expansion plans in Louisiana and India's ongoing space launch challenges.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Optical Communications System (O2O) enabled high-speed, crystal-clear data transmission from the Artemis II Orion mission using infrared laser light, allowing livestreams and nearly half a terabyte of lunar data to be downlinked.
SpaceX plans a $100 billion investment to expand Starbase Louisiana with 10 times more Starship launch pads, aiming for thousands of yearly space launches.
SpaceX introduces Starbase, Louisiana, a high-cadence launch site designed to support the Starship program and enable humanity's access to space.
NASA has cancelled its rescue mission for the aging Swift telescope due to spacecraft control system failures, but will use the attempt to gather data for future satellite servicing missions.
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have abandoned a robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray observatory due to technical issues with the rescue satellite Link, which experienced attitude control problems.
China's LandSpace successfully tested its ZhuQue-3 Y2 reusable rocket, achieving both orbital insertion of the Honghu 03 satellite and first-stage soft landing recovery.
Ukraine struck the Progress Rocket Space Center in Russia with cruise missiles, damaging key facilities involved in electronics and rocket production, including the assembly of Soyuz rockets.
Falcon 9's first stage successfully landed on Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2).
Elon Musk states that the ship landing was precise and would have been caught by the tower arms.
SpaceX is sending a ship to recover the Starship vehicle, which remains afloat in the Indian Ocean after its latest test flight.
SpaceX shared a view from above of the Starship launch from Pad 2 at Starbase.
SpaceX reports that Starship is performing a banking maneuver that simulates the final approach for a return to Starbase to be caught on a future mission.
SpaceX's Starlink team successfully established contact with all 20 V3 satellites after deployment, marking a step forward in expanding the satellite internet constellation.
SpaceX's Starship has successfully ignited a Raptor engine while in space, demonstrating a critical maneuver for future orbital missions.
SpaceX deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites for in-space testing to gather critical data for expanding the Starlink constellation.
SpaceX confirmed the successful deployment of all MRV-MEP payloads.