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• [New] Musk plans for multiple Starship launches to take place in 2024, and suggests SpaceX will build an additional six spacecraft by the end of 2024. Space
• [New] Monday's launch marked the second of five military reconnaissance satellites that Seoul has contracted with SpaceX to place into orbit by 2025. UPI
• [New] SpaceX is aiming to launch its Starship megarocket on a third test flight Thursday that, if successful, could bolster NASA's ambitions to return astronauts to the moon and transform the commercial spaceflight industry. NBC News
• SpaceX's plans to use T-Mobile's cellular radio waves from space could cause interference that would derail its proposed MSS constellation. SpaceNews
• Commercial space station developer Vast will use SpaceX's Starlink constellation to provide broadband connectivity for its Haven-1 station launching in 2025. SpaceNews
• SpaceX's revenue will increase from $8.7 B in 2023 to $13.3 B in 2024, driven by a return to growth for customer Falcon 9 launches and Starlink's user base growing from 2.3M customers to 3.8 M. Payload
• The Bandwagon-1 mission is the first of a new rideshare service by SpaceX that will launch multiple satellites into mid-inclination orbits, as opposed to the Sun-synchronous orbits of the Transporter missions. NASASpaceFlight.com
• Starship will need to fill up its fuel tank in orbit around Earth, before heading to the moon; SpaceX estimates an estimated 10 fuel transfers will be needed. Military.com
• In 2025, SpaceX plans to launch human spaceflight missions to Haven-1, a space station currently being developed by American aerospace company Vast, onboard its Falcon 9 rocket. Denison Yacht Sales
• NASA is vested in successful development of the giant rocket system, having struck a $2.9 billion deal with SpaceX in hopes of making Starship part of the Artemis moon mission. Deseret News
• Illegal drug use could be a cause for concern for someone like Musk, whose rocket company SpaceX relies on billions of dollars in government contracts. Business Insider
• SpaceX attempts another launch of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket that is vital to NASA's plans for landing astronauts on the Moon later this decade - and Elon Musk's hopes of eventually colonizing Mars. The Times of Israel
• NASA has given billions of dollars to SpaceX to develop Starship as a lunar landing system that could deliver astronauts to the lunar surface. NPR
• Starship is designed to be fully reusable, and SpaceX plans to land and relaunch its Super Heavy boosters, as it does with its Falcon 9 rockets. Scientific American
• While in space on its suborbital trajectory, SpaceX opened a payload bay door that will be used on later Starship vehicles for deploying Starlink satellites. SpaceNews
• Like the first stage of SpaceX's trusty Falcon 9 rocket, Starship is designed to be reusable, and SpaceX plans to land and relaunch its Super Heavy boosters. Space
• As part of NASA's preparations for Artemis, the space agency has made headway on a docking system that will be used by the lunar crew to move between the Orion spacecraft and the Starship Human Landing System, the latter to be built by SpaceX. Gizmodo
• A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA on the Crew-8 mission. Space
• Elon Musk's SpaceX is expected to launch a crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) delayed from February. Observer
• Called Crew-8, the upcoming SpaceX mission will launch four astronauts into orbit on the Dragon capsule Endeavour and Falcon 9 rocket from Pad 39 A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Space
• April will see the launch of the first spy satellite manufactured in India by a domestic private company aboard a SpaceX rocket. PendulumEdu

Last updated: 22 April 2024