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On Friday evening, Booster 21 fired all 33 engines. SpaceX says: full duration. But the burn was 10 seconds shorter than on the last two flights, and SpaceX doesn't say why. I have a theory, and it tells us a lot about what one launch really costs a pad. Ship 40 is sailing the wrong way around the planet, on purpose. Louisiana has already started work on its 100 billion dollar Starbase. And Flight 14? Two weeks out. What did SpaceX just quietly change, and why? Starship Flight 14: Is This The Most Important Launch Yet? Will It Go To...

SpaceX's plan to build the world's largest facility -- 100 million square feet in Grimes County, Texas, near Houston -- to do advanced computing and also manufacture, test and package silicon chips for its own use and by other Elon Musk-owned companies, will be self-powered using a gigawatt-scale natural gas power plant and battery storage, according to the company.The operations "are not expected to use electricity from the grid," the company said in a tax abatement agreement it entered into with the county in June.

SpaceX conducted a full-duration static fire test of Starship's 33-engine Super Heavy booster at Starbase, Texas on Aug. 28, 2026, as part of preparations for Flight 14. SpaceX fires up Starship's 33-Engine Super Heavy booster ahead of flight 14 | 1:03 VideoFromSpace | 2.14M subscribers | 58,856 views | August 29, 2026

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center with NASA's $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A is scheduled for Sunday, August 30, 2026, at 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 UTC). The Falcon Heavy's side boosters will return to land at Cape Canaveral just under eight minutes after launch. The rocket will take an easterly trajectory upon departure from Florida's Space Coast. Live commentary will be provided by Spaceflight Now’s Will Robinson-Smith starting about 2 hours prior to launch. Videos like this are made possible by the support of our members. Join...

SpaceX is pushing toward Starship Flight 14 with Ship 41 and Booster 21 completing major testing, including a spectacular 33-engine Super Heavy static fire. Meanwhile, SpaceX's Starship Plans Just Got Much Bigger, the colossal new Starbase Louisiana plans for at least ten Starship launch pads and thousands of future launches. Ship 40 has also finally been loaded aboard the massive FORTE recovery vessel for its long journey back to Texas after Flight 13. We also look at the final Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Florida, the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch on Falcon Heavy, Ariane 6, the latest...

IBERIA PARISH, La. (KLFY)– The Port of Iberia is already seeing interest from companies looking to position themselves near SpaceX’s newly announced project in Vermilion Parish, and port leaders believe that could translate into new investment and jobs across Acadiana. Port of Iberia Executive Director Craig Romero said companies from across the country have been contacting the port for roughly a year, even before the SpaceX project was officially announced. “We’ve had a number of companies from all parts of the United States call, big companies that are calling, inquiring during the last 12 months,” Romero said. “They just want...

In this video, we dive into the complex maritime operation of loading SpaceX's Starship 40 onto the heavy-lift vessel MV Forte for its journey home. Following its successful splashdown and subsequent recovery, the process of securing such a massive piece of hardware at sea presents unique engineering and logistical challenges. We look at the equipment used, the role of the recovery fleet, and what this means for the future of rapid rocket reuse. SpaceX Starship 40: The Process of Loading a Rocket at Sea | 12:40 What's Going on With Shipping? | 714K subscribers | 77,031 views | August 26,...

SpaceX has just officially announced Starbase, Louisiana, a new $100+ billion spaceport in South Louisiana near Pecan Island. Construction starts in 2027, with the first Starship launch from the new site planned for 2029. Starbase, Louisiana will be built to support thousands of Starship flights a year. This self-sustaining spaceport will have propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping capabilities, vehicle processing facilities, and an airport. SpaceX is committed to investing at least $100 billion and creating more than 3,000 new jobs at Starbase, Louisana hiring heavily from nearby communities and utilizing Louisiana workers’ extensive experience of building complex infrastructure in...

In this episode of What the Ship, we break down the top five maritime stories as of late August 2026. From high-stakes salvage operations in the Pacific to escalating economic warfare in the Black Sea, global shipping is facing unprecedented challenges. We look at how these regional disruptions are redrawing trade maps, spiking freight rates, and ultimately impacting global inflation. What the Ship (Ep 146) | Starship 40 & SLNC York Hormuz, Black Sea & Chokepoint Chaos | Containers 30:26 | What's Going on With Shipping? 713K subscribers | 34,153 views | August 24, 2026

This week at Starbase as construction pushes ahead on Booster 23 and Ship 43, Ship 41 undergoes static fire testing and we catch our first glimpse of hardware that SpaceX will be using to transport Starships to Florida. Starship's 14th Flight Moved Back To Next Month | 8:00 Avid Space | 251K subscribers | 1,896 views | August 23, 2026

Well, Starship's Next Flight Just Changed! Big time actually. The first Starship tower catch now pushed back months so we will have an ocean splashdown for the upper stage again with Flight 14. Never the less, Ship 41 just completed its static fire testing ahead of what should still be Starship's first fully orbital flight. Meanwhile, Ship 40 has reached Christmas Island after Flight 13, and a massive semi-submersible vessel is on the way to transport it all the way back to Starbase, Texas. Along with that China's reusable ZhuQue-3 successfully lands, NASA astronauts conduct more ISS spacewalks, Rocket Lab...

In this week's Avid Space industry update SpaceX continues to add to their massive global lead in mass-to-orbit for the year, we get updates from Rocket Lab, Relativity Space and Blue Origin, and the next Falcon Heavy launch is just around the corner. Falcon Heavy To Launch at The End of This Month! - Weekly Spaceflight News | 8:42 Avid Space | 251K subscribers | 7,979 views | August 19, 2026

A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket. The space agency released before-and-after photos of the impact area on Tuesday. The Falcon rocket’s upper stage plowed into the moon at 5,400 mph on Aug. 5 after drifting through space for more than a year. It launched a pair of private moon landers with experiments and even a tiny rover in 2025 as part of NASA’s push to commercialize lunar exploration. Based on these new photos by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the fresh crater appears to be 60...

After approx. 24 days at sea, the SpaceX Recovery team successfully guided Starship to a location just off the coast of Christmas Island. A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle in calmer waters before attempting to return it to Starbase.

SpaceX launched eight satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) for Louisiana-based telecom company Globalstar from Florida, as well as the USSF-366 mission for the U.S. Space Force from California, on Aug. 15, 2026. [Full Story on Space.com] The two rockets launched just 38 minutes apart, breaking SpaceX’s previous record -- set on Aug. 31, 2024, with two Starlink missions -- by 27 minutes. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta ( / spaleta_space_odyssey ) SpaceX Launches 2 Rockets 38 Minutes Apart -- New Record! Sticks Landings | 9:19 VideoFromSpace | 2.14M subscribers | 7,146 views |...

SpaceX's Starship Expansion Is Getting Ridiculous, with four more Starship launch pads now being built or upgraded across Starbase and Florida. SpaceX Is Building a Starship Empire it seems, all while they prepare for Starship Flight 14 and the first-ever Ship catch attempt. They've even revealed Project Ignition answering where the Florida "Massey's" equivalent will be set up. In the meantime they are still doing the recovery attempt for Starship Ship 40 after Flight 13, and we even have major Starlink V3 deployment plans. Elsewhere this week, Rocket Lab unveils its portable GHOST launch system, China suffers a dramatic Long...

Everyone expected Starship Flight 14 to attempt the first ship catch in history. Then a government filing showed up, and buried inside it is one sentence that changes the entire mission. Bigger than anything SpaceX has announced out loud. And it comes with a solid date. Meanwhile, a strange piece of hardware just rolled through the Port of Brownsville toward Starbase. Almost nobody noticed it. It might be telling us the truth about SpaceX's new Starship launch pad. SpaceX's New Plan For The First Ever Ship Catch | 21:51 What about it!? | 662K subscribers | 25,662 views | August...

Elon Musk is betting that the next phase of his sprawling technology empire will require a building on a scale that has never existed before. SpaceX and Tesla are building Terafab, a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor manufacturing facility in Grimes County, Texas, more than five times the size of the world's largest building. "Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far. And it will be stunningly beautiful," Musk wrote on X. "We're now embarking on the most epic chip-building effort—combining logic, memory, and advanced packaging all under one roof," said Musk in a press release. The...

This video argues that even if the current AI market is experiencing a bubble similar to the dot-com crash of 2000, SpaceX is uniquely positioned to dominate the future. The host posits that while many AI companies may fail, those with robust business models, profitability, and genuine innovation will emerge as industry leaders. Key takeaways include: Vertical Integration: SpaceX is described as the only company that owns the full infrastructure stack: rockets for deployment, satellites for global connectivity, ground networks, and massive AI compute capabilities (8:15 - 9:02). The Infrastructure Play: SpaceX is building a global internet backbone via Starlink,...

SpaceX is closing in on 130,000 acres of Louisiana coastline. A second mega Starbase, so large that today's Starbase would fit into it more than nine hundred times. And that's only half of the expansion story, because in a letter to the federal government on Friday, SpaceX asked to open up the ocean itself. Yes. The Starship oil rigs are back. Meanwhile, at the pad that just launched Flight 13, our flyover caught something nobody expected: scaffolding deep inside the flame trench. We dug into what's happening down there, and the answer comes with a clock attached, because the paperwork...