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Falcon 9 to Launch SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A [Scrubbed]
SpaceX is targeting Monday, 5 October 2026, at 4:16 a.m. ET for a Falcon 9 launch of the Space Development…
Dragon Grace Docks at ISS with Crew-13
Dragon Grace docked to Harmony’s forward port at 7:05 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2026. NASA timed the trip at…
Falcon Heavy flies NROL-97, its First NRO Heavy Mission
Falcon Heavy lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at 11:54 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1 with classified NROL-97, the National…
Crew 13 Lifts Off, Crew Dragon Grace en-route to ISS
Crew-13 lifted off on time at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2026, and Crew Dragon Grace is in orbit…
Google’s First Orbital AI Chip Test Flies on SpaceX Transporter-18
Google’s Project Suncatcher will fly its first orbital TPU hardware test on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare from SLC-4E around October 1,…
Why SpaceX Doesn’t Like Launching Falcon Heavy
Eric Romo, via a @sourceryy clip, frames Falcon Heavy scarcity as three-core cost, longer pad time than Falcon 9, and…
Starship Reaches Orbit for the First Time, Deploys 26 Starlink V3
Flight 14 / Starlink Group 31-1 reached sustained Starship orbit for the first time on 28 September 2026 and deployed…
Musk Warns Against Trying to Copy Raptor 3
Musk warned against trying to copy Raptor 3 after Chinese commercial methalox engines were compared on thrust, arguing manufacturing internals…
NASA Awards SpaceX $946M for Crew-15–17 Dragon Flights
NASA awarded SpaceX a $946 million firm-fixed-price modification for Crew-15, Crew-16, and Crew-17 Dragon ISS rotations. The order lifts SpaceX’s…
SpaceX Launches USSF-385; B1100 Completes 10th Landing on OCISLY
Falcon 9 launched the classified USSF-385 mission from Vandenberg on Sept. 26, and booster B1100 made its 10th landing, on…
