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B1067's 37th Flight, Starlink Passes 11,000 & Roman Launches Aug 30
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SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster B1067 just shattered reusability records with its 37th flight, while Starlink crossed 11,000 active satellites and NASA's Roman Space Telescope counts down to a Falcon Heavy launch. Today's briefing covers the milestone, a completed ISS spacewalk, and what's coming next in space exploration.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
A single rocket booster just rewrote the record books. On August twenty-fifth, SpaceX flew its Falcon 9 booster B1067 for the thirty-seventh time, deploying twenty-nine Starlink satellites and setting a new high-water mark for orbital rocket reusability.
The August twenty-fifth mission carried a second significance. SpaceX confirmed it was the final planned Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral.
Away from the launch pad, August twenty-fifth also produced a completed spacewalk. NASA and ESA astronauts finished installing a high-speed antenna on the International Space Station.
Starlink's constellation has now crossed eleven thousand active satellites. That's the largest satellite constellation ever assembled.
Looking a few days ahead, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch August thirtieth on a Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center. Roman is designed for wide-field infrared surveys.
Two things to track from here. First, whether Starship's Kennedy timeline firms up or slips further, because that directly affects commercial customers who are already asking hard questions about launch access after twenty twenty-eight.
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