SpaceX Wraps Up Starship Version 2 Era with a Near-Flawless Final Flight

SpaceX closed a major chapter in its Starship development program on Monday evening, launching what appeared to be a nearly flawless suborbital test flight with its upgraded Version 2 Starship-Super Heavy rocket. The mission, designated Integrated Flight Test-11 (IFT-11), marked the final flight of this iteration of the world’s tallest and most powerful rocket as the company transitions to the next generation — Starship Version 3.

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SpaceX Set for Starship Flight 11: Next-Generation Test to Push Reusability, Coordination, and Capability

SpaceX is preparing for the next chapter in its ambitious Starship test campaign, with the Flight 11 mission poised to launch Monday evening from the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas. The test, scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Eastern (2315 UTC), will mark another crucial step in refining the fully reusable heavy-lift vehicle designed to carry humans and cargo to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

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Blue Origin to Build New Space Force Payload Facility at Cape Canaveral

The U.S. Space Force has selected Blue Origin to construct a new state-of-the-art payload processing facility (PPF) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, expanding America’s capacity to prepare spacecraft for launch. The project aims to strengthen the nation’s on-orbit capabilities and streamline the pre-launch process for military, commercial, and allied missions.

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SpaceX Delays Third Project Kuiper Launch to Sunday Amid Unfavorable Weather

Oct. 9: SpaceX has postponed the planned launch of 24 Amazon Project Kuiper broadband satellites due to deteriorating weather conditions along Florida’s Space Coast. The mission, originally slated for Thursday night, is now scheduled to lift off no earlier than Sunday, Oct. 12, at 8:41 p.m. EDT (0041 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

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NASA Taps Arizona Startup to Boost Aging Swift Observatory’s Orbit in First-of-Its-Kind Mission

In a bold step for spacecraft servicing, NASA has awarded Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona, a $30 million contract to raise the orbit of the agency’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The robotic servicing mission, planned for spring 2026, will be the first attempt by a commercial spacecraft to capture and reposition a government-owned satellite that was never designed for in-orbit servicing.

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Atlas V 551 Launches Amazon’s Project Kuiper KA-03 Mission

On September 25, 2025, United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket thundered off the pad at Cape Canaveral, carrying Amazon’s third batch of broadband satellites for its ambitious Project Kuiper. Liftoff occurred at 8:09 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41, with the powerful Atlas V 551 configuration placing 27 satellites into low-Earth orbit. The mission, designated KA-03, marked another milestone in Amazon’s effort to build a global internet constellation. 

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