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Youngest Exoplanet Forming Now, Starship Flight 14 & Progress M-25 Docks
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Astronomers confirm Elias 2-24 b — the youngest exoplanet ever detected, still actively forming from its stellar disk. Plus SpaceX's 662nd booster recovery, Starship Flight 14's FAA hold, and a delayed Progress cargo ship reaches the ISS.
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Astronomers have confirmed the youngest exoplanet ever detected, and it's still forming right now. That's the signal worth holding onto as you catch up on today's briefing.
Pulling back to the launch pad, SpaceX flew another Starlink mission on September nineteenth from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Twenty-seven V2 Mini satellites are now in orbit, part of the ongoing expansion of the Starlink broadband constellation.
One mission that hasn't launched yet is Starship Flight fourteen. A September twenty-eighth target has been floated, but that's contingent on FAA approval.
On the ISS front, Russian cargo spacecraft Progress M-25 docked at the Poisk module on September nineteenth following a three-day rendezvous. It delivered two point eight tons of supplies to the seven-person Expedition seventy-five crew.
Looking at what to watch next: the FAA decision on Starship Flight fourteen is the clearest near-term signal in commercial launch. Either the regulatory path opens or it doesn't, and the timing tells us something about how that process is moving.
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