TechCrunch
Google's first orbital TPU is now in space, but its own white paper says Starship needs 1,800 launches in a decade - a rate it has never come close to - before orbital data centers make sense.
Ars Technica
SpaceX aims to finally put Starship in orbit on September 22, because the 13 previous attempts were just a warm-up.
TechCrunch
Why build ultra-clean rooms on Earth when you can just borrow a rocket that's already going up and coming back?
Ars Technica
SpaceX is dialing back Florida launches to just two a month until Starship shows up, because Falcon 9 has been doing all the heavy lifting for a decade.
TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a second $100 billion Starship spaceport in Louisiana, because one in Texas wasn't enough, and it's hoping to launch by 2029 - or maybe 2030, depending on who you ask.
Ars Technica
SpaceX's Starship, after a surprise intact splashdown, gets a 24-day ocean tow to Christmas Island, proving that even rockets need a good sea story.
Ars Technica
Starship's ceramic tiles survived another flight, but experts warn they're a dead end for rapid reuse - like a space shuttle with better PR.
TechCrunch
SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites on Starship's 13th flight, but the Super Heavy booster explodes during landing - again. Upper stage performs flawlessly, stock drops 2%.
SpaceNews
SpaceX's 13th Starship flight finally deployed real Starlink satellites, didn't explode on splashdown, and taught engineers a lesson about frozen turbopumps.
Ars Technica
From lightning-struck Chinese rockets to Starship engine swaps and oil platforms turned launch pads, the rocket industry keeps finding new ways to reach orbit - and new delays.
Ars Technica
SpaceX scrubs Starship, India sets a date, China catches a booster, Japan dreams big, and AST SpaceMobile might buy a rocket company because launch delays are annoying.
Ars Technica
SpaceX is launching Starship for the 13th time, this time with real Starlink satellites, a grumpy booster, and a heat shield that still can't make up its mind about being reusable.
TechCrunch
Sam Altman calls Elon Musk's space data center plans a short-term sell, and experts - plus SpaceX's own IPO docs - agree it's a 2030s thing at best.
SpaceNews
Japanese lunar company ispace, whose landers have a perfect record of crashing, will now send payloads on SpaceX's Starship instead - because if you can't land, why not let someone else try?
SpaceNews
NASA reveals tweaked plans for Blue Origin and SpaceX moon landers, with SpaceX docking in Earth orbit and Blue Origin scrapping a transporter - because apparently, the path to the moon is paved with fewer tanker launches and less loitering.
TechCrunch
A former e-scooter founder raises $5M to put AI chips in space, betting on Starship and hoping the math works out better than it does on Earth.
TechCrunch
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals that reusable rockets are harder than expected, Starlink growth is slowing, and the space broadband market may be smaller than hoped - but at least they launched some dummy satellites.
SpaceNews
Starcloud buys Starlink lasers to turn space into a data center, because ground-based internet was just too reliable.
BBC Business
SpaceX delays Starship launch due to a wonky pin, right before a record-breaking IPO that could make Elon Musk the first trillionaire - because nothing says 'invest in me' like a rocket that needs a hardware fix.
Ars Technica
SpaceX files for IPO, reveals $18.67B revenue, $4.94B loss, and a plan to dominate AI compute in orbit - because rockets alone weren't ambitious enough.
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