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it's funny that that outcome was unexpected

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Two Starship Fuel Transfer Probably January-March 2026
August 27, 2025 by Brian Wang

Now that there has been a successful Flight 10 of Starship. There will be the start of using version 3 Starship in flight 12.

Fuel transfer capability is critical for the $3.5 billion NASA-SpaceX Lunar Starship program. SpaceX will test as much as they can in the single Starship launches as previously discussed by NASA.

SpaceX will not have two Starships in orbit at the same time until about January-March 2026. They would likely launch them back to back about two weeks apart as they work towards weekly launch cadence. Elon in his technical discussion said the two Starship refueling would be done in 2026. This needs to be done as early as possible for the other goals of unmanned Mars and lunar landing tests for Artemis 3.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/08/t ... -2026.html

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SpaceX Version 4 Starship Will be 30 Meters Taller in 2027
August 28, 2025 by Brian Wang

SpaceX Starship V3 will be 30 meters taller with a proposed height of 150 meters. SpaceX should upgrade to Starship version 3 by November, 2025 from the recently flow version 2. It will be about 7500 tons.

It is projected that Starship V3 could have a payload capacity of over 200 tons to low Earth orbit (LEO) when fully reusable, and potentially more if expendable.

Starship V3 is expected to have a thrust of over 10,000 tonnes force at launch, which would make it the most powerful rockets ever developed, exceeding even many of the theoretical Nova rocket variants.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/08/s ... -2027.html

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SpaceX gets a green light to more than double its Florida launches
Aria Alamalhodaei
11:36 AM PDT · September 3, 2025

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/space ... -launches/
The world’s most-flown rocket may start flying even more.

U.S. regulators have completed a key environmental review that paves the way for SpaceX to more than double the number of Falcon 9 launches from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

In addition to the annual launch increase from 50 launches to up to 120, the Federal Aviation Administration’s environmental review also approved a new on-site landing zone that could accommodate up to 34 booster landings per year. These boosters are the reusable first-stage portions of Falcon 9 rockets that SpaceX lands and refurbishes for future flights.

The review, finalized on Wednesday, found what’s known as a “Mitigated Finding of No Significant Impact,” meaning the proposed changes “would not significantly impact the quality of the human environment” under federal law, with impacts reduced by specific protective measures.

Those measures include obtaining additional environmental permits before construction of the new facilities, using sea turtle-friendly lighting at night, and conducting pre-construction surveys of Florida scrub-jay and eastern indigo snake populations to ensure wildlife protection.

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Elon Musk Says Starship Will Begin Launching 100 Tons to LEO in 2026
Musk claims SpaceX will demonstrate full reusability, catching both the super heavy booster and Starship upper stage.
By Jon Martindale September 10, 2025
https://www.extremetech.com/aerospace/e ... eo-in-2026

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk spent this week talking up the company's plans for its Starship launch vehicle over the next year, claiming that sometime in 2026 it will demonstrate full reusability and the ability to deliver up to 100 tons of payload into a "useful orbit." This will reportedly come from the use of the Block 3 design, which will upgrade Starship with a number of improvements made following Block 2 testing efforts, most of which resulted in catastrophic failures earlier this year.

Starship was on a poor roll until recently, having exploded more often than not during its 2025 test flights. But after the rocket's recent successful trip to space and safe return to Earth's (ocean) surface, Musk appears buoyant about its future. With Block 3 Starship set to begin flying in early 2026, Musk made major claims about its potential.

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SpaceX Targets Oct. 13 For Next Starship Launch
The last Block 2 Starship to ever launch before Block 3 is introduced in 2026.
By Jon Martindale September 30, 2025

Starship Flight 11 is targeting an Oct. 13 launch date, with SpaceX hoping for one more run of its Block 2 Starship design before transitioning to the larger and improved Block 3 variant in 2026. All had better go well, as SpaceX is facing increasing pressure to have its Starship ready for a 2027 launch to the Moon, where it will act as both transport and lander for the Artemis III mission.

Starship suffered several embarrassing failures through the first half of 2025 but finally managed a successful launch in August. That launch saw Starship reach a suborbital trajectory, release its payload, and then return for a safe splashdown. The first-stage booster successfully splashed down at a separate location, too.

Flight 11 will be a re-run of the last mission, showcasing the release of dummy Starlink satellites in a suborbital trajectory. However, SpaceX will reportedly remove some heat shields from the design to stress test vulnerable areas of the vehicle, reports Space.com.

https://www.extremetech.com/aerospace/s ... hip-launch

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Huh, never expected them to start succeeding twice in a row.

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Huh, never expected them to start succeeding twice in a row.

I wish Elon would focus on space tourism and building a nice space-station to take over for the international space station. 90% of the drive to even send humans into space is because of that currently. Elon would do more to keep humanity in space focusing on earth orbit and possibly expand within a decade to the moon.

Nice big space station orbiting earth
And then you can go to the moon outpost

We have got to build infrastructure in space that allows for sustainable economic growth.

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