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Starship underpins SpaceX’s growth ambitions

- Starship is central to SpaceX’s growth strategy, aiming to enable much higher payload capacity and lower cost per launch. - The vehicle is intended to support Starlink deployment, commercial satellite launches, and crewed lunar and Mars missions. - Success depends on scaling production, achieving frequent flights, and reducing turnaround and operations costs. - Technical, regulatory, and infrastructure challenges—environmental reviews, launch-site upgrades, and reliability milestones—remain key uncertainties.

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Astronauts briefly shelter in Dragon during ISS leak repair

- Crew detected a small air leak on the International Space Station and conducted troubleshooting to locate and repair it. - During the repair, astronauts temporarily sheltered inside SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft as a precautionary safe haven. - Flight controllers monitored station pressure and systems while the team isolated and

Qianfan constellation deployment hits 200 satellites with Long March 8 and 6A launches

- Qianfan’s satellite constellation reached 200 spacecraft following recent Long March 8 and Long March 6A launches. - The launches placed additional low-Earth-orbit communications satellites into service. - The milestone advances China’s commercial broadband/IoT satellite network deployment. - Operator plans continued launches to expand coverage and services.

AstroForge completes DeepSpace-2 spacecraft

- AstroForge has completed assembly of its DeepSpace‑2 spacecraft. - The company says the spacecraft is now entering preflight activities such as testing and integration. - DeepSpace‑2 is part of AstroForge’s planned lunar exploration and resource‑prospecting efforts. - Announcement reported by SpaceNews and shared on r/

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