2026 Is Going To Be An Incredible Year For Starship - Spaceflight Weekly #191 [10:16]

YouTube ^ | November 2, 2025 | LabPadre Space

[SunkenCiv]

This week at Starbase, construction continues on Giga Bay and the Flight 12 vehicles at the build site, work continues on the Pad 2 launch mount and launch tower hardware, and teams aren't wasting any time demolishing the Pad 1 launch mount and reconfiguring the supporting infrastructure. Meanwhile in Florida, SpaceX launches another pair of Starlink missions as Blue Origin, Stoke Space, and ULA are all hard at work preparing infrastructure and vehicles for upcoming operations. 

2026 Is Going To Be An Incredible Year For Starship - Spaceflight Weekly #191 | 10:16 
LabPadre Space | 249K subscribers | 13,984 views | November 2, 2025

 

00:00 Intro 
00:40 Fabrication 
01:20 Launch Site Construction 
02:52 Build Site Construction 
03:30 Testing 
04:17 SpaceX Gives HLS Update 
05:32 Falcon 9 Updates 
07:14 Other Spaceflight News 
09:57 Outro

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel
KEYWORDS: axiomspace; blueorigin; elonmusk; falcon9; honda; nasa; spacex; starship; stokespace; ula; vastspace

[SunkenCiv]

Apparently this channel has been around for some time. I'd seen it mentioned by other channels, but never had it show up in related vids before. Clean, concise, well-organized, unlike so many others. It looks like I'll be visiting it a lot.

[SunkenCiv]

I'd previously heard of Axiom and Honda, but Stoke Space? Vast Space? Nice presentation!

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.youtube.com/@LabPadre/search?query=Axiom

https://www.youtube.com/@LabPadre/search?query=Honda

https://www.youtube.com/@LabPadre/search?query=Stoke%20Space

https://www.youtube.com/@LabPadre/search?query=Vast%20Space

[Red Badger]

Will they go on tour again? Grace Slick is 86.............

[Red Badger]

Will they go on tour again? Grace Slick is 86.............

[SunkenCiv]

When all or most of the primary members were still around, they’d play a gig in SF as “Jefferson Wheelchairs”.

[Red Badger]

Mickey Thomas still uses the ‘Starship’ name, Lives here in Destin and they perform locally along the Gulf Coast........

[doorgunner69]

With all those years of chain smoking, I doubt she can croak, less sing.

[Red Badger]

Former Band member Mickey Thomas lives here and uses the name ‘Starship’ for his band and they have a girl that sounds exactly like Grace Slick..............

[The_Media_never_lie]

For later.

[ckilmer]

Next year is going to be awesome. Elon Musk has been saying since July that he expects grok 5 to enable a new physics by the end of the year and all kinds of scientific innovations. I’ve seen a mathematician say that he expects most if not all unsolved math problems to be solved next year with the coming more powerful AI. Next year is just a warm up for the civilization shift that comes in 2027 with Recursive Self Improvement or RSI

[SunkenCiv]

Nov-Dec will be the next launch window for Mars.

There needs to be a Mars-orbit-then-return mission of some sort, also it wouldn’t hurt a thing for SpaceX to deploy at least three of the new version Starlink satellites around Mars with a laser comm station (or more than one) to keep an active (though obviously time-delayed) comm link between Mars and Earth.

NASA might even be interested in piggybacking relays for the existing surface rovers and such to improve links to and from those.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/dtm5bc/mars_launch_windows_20202030/

[ckilmer]

There is a YouTube channel that does nothing but show what musk is posting. Last night there was a huge discussion of the space economy that musk envisions. I barely understood it. Some use of solar to power data centers and such. There was talk of using starlink for distributed power in the same way as Tesla cars might be used for distributed compute.

Generally Tesla stock looks like it can easily 10x over the coming years.

[SunkenCiv]

The only way I know of to get a piece of SpaceX is via a basket of stocks traded under BFGIX -- minimum investment $1 million, and there's a low percent annual fee. Good appreciation.

[SunkenCiv]

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[markman46]

Labpadre space has been around a long time. I prefer nasaspaceflight because they have cameras all over starbase.

[SunkenCiv]

I’d known they were around because they’d get credit for footage (or whatever we call them now), but it never occurred to me to look for a channel.

NasaSpaceFlight vids are always a meandering mess. SpaceFlight Now is my choice for the launches, usually. Videosfromspace is the first one I tried, some years ago, when it was just one guy with a camera hiding in the reeds. 😊