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

YouTube ^ | November 2, 2025 | LabPadre Space

[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. 😊

[ckilmer]

Tesla will do better in the next 10 years. That’s a 10x easy.

[SunkenCiv]

I agree. I suspect there will be a stock split early next year, probably 5:1.

Norway’s Sovereign Wealth is steadfastly opposed to Elon’s pay package, and whattayaknow, the stock is down today, almost as if everyone who isn’t a big hater of Elon Musk is aware that not paying him hurts the company.

Oooh, the Google stock pages make the price roll like an odometer now.

[ckilmer]

Beyond Tesla I have seen some pretty sharp people recommend just following whatever the guy who wrote “situational awareness” does. He has a hedge fund now. He’s the guy who has the graph that shows that about 2027 the rate of innovation goes vertical with RSI.