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Thursday 8 October 2026

SpaceX says Pad 39A Starship tower is almost complete

SpaceX's Julianna Scheiman said on 1 October that Pad 39A's Starship tower is almost complete and testing has begun. No Florida launch date yet.

Harper Quinn Friday 9 October 2026, open calendar5 min read

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SpaceX says Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is nearly ready for Starship. Julianna Scheiman, SpaceX's director of NASA science and Dragon programs, told the Crew-13 postlaunch news conference on Thursday 1 October that "things are going super well at 39A" and that the Starship tower there is "almost complete."

Two launch towers at Kennedy Pad 39A, Falcon on the left and the taller Starship tower on the right under a clear sky — Photo: Olga Ernst / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped

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Harper Quinn Friday 9 October 2026 at 6:26 am Adelaide, open calendar5 min read

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