Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable… pic.twitter.com/LOMrBE97J0

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 24, 2026

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Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable… pic.twitter.com/LOMrBE97J0

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 24, 2026

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Rocket pron

pic.twitter.com/9okSozT8np

— Gary W. Fuller  (@garywfuller) April 26, 2026

Nice!

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The mirror inside the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was donated to @NASA by the @NRO_gov. It was originally built in the late 1990s/early 2000s for Earth-imaging spy sats.

The donation was under the condition that NASA pinky-promises to never point it at Earth! promise!!!!

Roman can survey the sky ~1000x faster than Hubble. Roman will downlink 1.4 terabytes of data per day.

All from a 3-decade-old mirror.

If this is what "obsolete" (for reconnaissance) '90s NRO tech can achieve, just imagine what insane optics are pointing back at Earth right now, that we'll (probably) never know about.

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It's good to see something positive come about from a government contract run amuck. I'm just about convinced the 'starshield' and other devices give tracking data sufficient to explain why the President/Pentagon keep trying to cancel the E-3 sentry replacement (E-7).

Because both static fires were aborted due to ground equipment that needs to work properly during a launch and they can't understand if the fixes work without doing another static fire.

— Ryan Hansen Space (@RyanHansenSpace) April 26, 2026

Falcon Heavy is vertical for a mid-morning launch:

For the first time since October 2024, KSC's Launch Complex 39A has a vertical Falcon Heavy on the pad, after the rocket rolled out earlier today, ahead of the ViaSat-3 F3 launch tomorrow, April 27.@NASASpaceflight will be live for the launch https://t.co/tyDDqf5aVV pic.twitter.com/3I7Ers6vT9

— Elisar Priel (@ENNEPS) April 26, 2026

I'm glad they don't do that with the New Shepard

Under 5 minutes to falcon Heavy launch

Hold at -28 seconds. Scrub for today.

Once again, yelling at clouds. pic.twitter.com/EdOv3wwI1f

— Kiko Dontchev (@TurkeyBeaver) April 27, 2026

I'm sure someone on here will want this

🚨 There appears to be a real Soviet-era lunar spacesuit currently listed on eBay for $350,000 with free shipping pic.twitter.com/X8KNooCSIw

— Latest in space (@latestinspace) April 27, 2026

C'mon.... free shipping!

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I'm sure someone on here will want this

🚨 There appears to be a real Soviet-era lunar spacesuit currently listed on eBay for $350,000 with free shipping pic.twitter.com/X8KNooCSIw

— Latest in space (@latestinspace) April 27, 2026

C'mon.... free shipping!

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As soon as my cut of the inheritance from that Nigerian prince hits my bank account, that baby is mine!

Perfect for those Texas summers. That think is climate controlled all the time.

That's even more legit than the one that almost killed Everyday Astronaut

Launch set for Wednesday morning around 1015ET

Now targeting Wednesday, April 29 for Falcon Heavy’s launch of the @viasat-3 F3 mission from Florida. The 85-minute window opens at 10:13 a.m. ET → https://t.co/Z9nzcfYdVU pic.twitter.com/M2NRy5UJ06

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 27, 2026

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Perfect for those Texas summers. That think is climate controlled all the time.

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This might be the World Class rocket porn that was shared in Twitter a few days ago. Looks like it was just raised to YouTube.

Oddball question, I know, but it has to do with Elon and his personal goals or visions for SpaceX and his mortality. As a casual space fan who only started following so closely when SpaceX set foot on Boca Chica it seems that a lot of the drive behind these ambitious goals come from Elon and his personal push to make things happen. Maybe that's an oversimplification, but it's a perception I don't share alone.

Clearly, Falcon is a proven platform that is going to be the workhorse for a while longer and I'm sure in Elon's absence it would continue on for a long time. SpaceX isn't going anywhere, I get that, and I'm not saying that I think Starship is a dead platform if something happed to Elon, but without that single minded captain who can say make it happen because he's writing the check... how does that change the direction of the program?

The SpaceX/BO matchup with larger than life characters at the helms is so Edison/Tesla it makes me wonder how a crazy ambitious project like Starship continues if something happened to its champion.

I think the best modern day case study would be Apple and Jobs

Super Heavy NET May 29th.

🚨🚨 Space Exploration - FCC Docket 0683-EX-ST-2026

🔗 https://t.co/Ee5WXcpMnj. pic.twitter.com/VZgIG7QzYt

— FCC Filing Alerts (@fccfilingalerts) April 27, 2026

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Super Heavy NET May 29th.

🚨🚨 Space Exploration - FCC Docket 0683-EX-ST-2026

🔗 https://t.co/Ee5WXcpMnj. pic.twitter.com/VZgIG7QzYt

— FCC Filing Alerts (@fccfilingalerts) April 27, 2026

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So new launch date around May 29th?

Timing Raptor 3's run sequences. That triple-pulse sound on startup is really just something else pic.twitter.com/5Pt1PsJmGT

— TheSpaceEngineer (@mcrs987) April 27, 2026

🚨 JUST IN: Trump NASA Chief Jared Isaacman just DOGE’d the agency by eliminating $1 BILLION per year in WASTE and abuse

GREAT! 👏🏻

We’ve been paying “staffing agencies” for workers, but Isaacman is CONVERTING full-time “contractors” to civil servants

This saves over $1B in… pic.twitter.com/oz7upQXtfU

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 28, 2026

Powering the next giant leap.

A novel electromagnetic thruster that runs on lithium metal vapor was successfully fired up for the first time during initial tests at JPL.

Fully developed and paired with a nuclear power source, these thrusters could reduce launch mass and support… pic.twitter.com/FFWDqBePvw

— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) April 28, 2026

will25u said:

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🚨 JUST IN: Trump NASA Chief Jared Isaacman just DOGE’d the agency by eliminating $1 BILLION per year in WASTE and abuse

GREAT! 👏🏻

We’ve been paying “staffing agencies” for workers, but Isaacman is CONVERTING full-time “contractors” to civil servants

This saves over $1B in… pic.twitter.com/oz7upQXtfU

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 28, 2026

Powering the next giant leap.

A novel electromagnetic thruster that runs on lithium metal vapor was successfully fired up for the first time during initial tests at JPL.

Fully developed and paired with a nuclear power source, these thrusters could reduce launch mass and support… pic.twitter.com/FFWDqBePvw

— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) April 28, 2026

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Cool. Find another billion in savings somewhere else and he can almost pay for 1 SLS launch.

Source: https://t.co/8nxXXxgFe6

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) April 28, 2026

JUST IN: SpaceX aims at $7.5 trillion valuation, a million-person Mars colony and space data centers

— Kalshi (@Kalshi) April 28, 2026

In legal terms that is called 'puffery.'

Wolf of Wall Street comes to mind.

Falcon Heavy attempt this am at 9:13.

Now targeting Wednesday, April 29 for Falcon Heavy’s launch of the @viasat-3 F3 mission from Florida. The 85-minute window opens at 10:13 a.m. ET → https://t.co/Z9nzcfYdVU pic.twitter.com/M2NRy5UJ06

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 27, 2026

Next one of those would I believe be in September:

Falcon Heavy is targeted to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope as soon as early September 2026 from pad 39A in Florida https://t.co/HlqoJJCmiS

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 21, 2026

ETA: SpaceX launch page has link to their video, which will start at 8:58CST.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/viasat3f3

24 minutes to Falcon Heavy launch

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24 minutes to Falcon Heavy launch

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That was insanely cool.

Will watching twin boosters RTLS ever get old?

Perhaps...

NEVER GETS OLD!

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Now THAT'S how you present a space launch for television audiences! NASA, why is this so hard for you?

Amazing to watch. No different than cinema quality.

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Well, to be fair, SpaceX has a lot more practice.

Darn, I missed it. I'll have to catch a replay.

A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound

But there's no sound on the moon <wink emoji that refuses to post>

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Astronomers say the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that launched in early 2025 will strike the Moon later this summer, likely on the near side of the Moon.

Bill Gray, who writes the widely used Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects, has published a comprehensive report on the impact expected to occur at 2:44 am ET (06:44 UTC) on August 5. The Falcon 9 rocket's upper stage is 13.8 meters (45 feet) tall and has a 3.7-meter (12 feet) diameter. Since the Moon has no atmosphere, it will strike the lunar surface intact.

Although the Moon will be visible to the eastern half of the US and Canada, and in much of South America, Gray said he believes the impact will probably be too faint to be seen by Earth-based telescopes.

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