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SpaceX Picked Vera Rubin
Musk called Nvidia’s Vera Rubin the best AI computer and said SpaceX will build exclusively on Nvidia as installed compute climbs from 1.4 GW toward multi-gigawatt targets.
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Harper Quinn
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Harper Quinn is The Gold Standard's SpaceX correspondent. Quinn covers the launch timetable, the Starlink network and the work on the pads in Florida and Texas.
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Eighty Starlinks and Counting
Falcon 9 Starlink Group 15-24 from Vandenberg is queued as SpaceX’s 80th Starlink mission of 2026—a West Coast cadence story as Florida Starlink shifts toward Starship.
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The Pacific got a new zone
FAA Final Tiered EA and FONSI/ROD ~2 September 2026: expanded Pacific Starship contingency zones, new Northern Pacific box for Eastern Range-to-Starbase. Licence-class, not a launch. BaseNor, NASASpaceflight, FAA primary.
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Flight Fourteen asks for orbit
FCC STA for Starship Flight 14: orbital second stage, window from 15 September 2026 NET. Starlink V3. Booster 21 already static-fired. Radio authority, not a flight licence. TeslaNorth, earnings context, FAA week.
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B1063 sat down two shy of the record
Starlink Group 15-23 from Vandenberg SLC-4E at 1:42 a.m. PDT, Wednesday 2 September. Booster B1063's 35th flight. 27 Starlink V2 Mini. Landed on Of Course I Still Love You.
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B1063 is up for its thirty-fifth
Starlink Group 15-23, Falcon 9 from SLC-4E Vandenberg, Wednesday 2 September, delayed from the 1st. B1063's 35th. 27 Starlink V2 Mini. Landing targeted on Of Course I Still Love You. Not confirmed flown at copy close.
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Booster 21 held the full duration
Friday 28 August at Starbase. SpaceX: a full-duration 33-engine static fire on the Super Heavy for Flight 14. Ship 41 already burned. Mid-September is the talk, not a clock.
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Forte loads Ship 40 at Christmas Island
The Maltese-flagged semi-submersible took the 52-metre stage out of Flying Fish Cove for a 20,000-kilometre run to Starbase.
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Starlink hit 12 million subscribers at the end of Q2
SpaceX’s Q2 2026 results, for the quarter ended 30 June, put Starlink at 12.0 million subscribers, up 1.7 million in the quarter and double a year earlier. Connectivity revenue was $4.3 billion. Company revenue was $7.8 billion.