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The daily count of everything tracked in Earth orbit — 20,435 payloads (17,437 active), 15,027 rocket bodies and debris — with a live map plotting 10,629 Starlink satellites, from CelesTrak and US Space Force catalog data.
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NASA's launch release says Behnken and Hurley lifted off at 3:22 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A. The August 2 release says splashdown at 2:48 p.m. EDT in the Gulf of Mexico, 64 days in orbit and 62 days aboard the station. The archive note attributes 63 days to SpaceX.
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SpaceX's Flight 4 narrative says liftoff at 7:50 a.m. CT on June 6, 2024, and a soft splashdown of the booster in the Gulf of Mexico. The Flight 5 narrative says the chopstick arms caught the booster on the first try on October 13, 2024. It does not print a liftoff clock.
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An archived reply says Starlink service was active in Ukraine, with more terminals en route. USAID's inspector general prints 5,175 terminals and two donation figures, 3,677 and 3,667. A June 2023 Pentagon statement, as CNBC prints it, is about services.
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SpaceX's Starshield page says the product is for government use, and Starlink is for consumer and commercial use. CNBC, on September 27, 2023, quotes a Space Force spokesperson on a one-year contract with a $70 million maximum. The October 2026 Ukraine slowdown is a different page.
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T-Mobile and SpaceX announced dead-zone texting in 2022. The FCC's supplemental-coverage rules are March 2024, and the T-Mobile authorization is November 26, 2024. Commercial T-Satellite is a 2025 product, still a company account.
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SpaceX's mission page dates the first orbital-class landing to December 21, 2015, the first droneship landing to April 8, 2016, and the first reflight to March 30, 2017. Spaceflight Now's August 25, 2026 account of a 37th flight is that outlet's count on that day.
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The mission press release says 8:02:56 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A. Spaceflight Now prints the same clock time and 0002:56 GMT on September 16. The SpaceX page fetched on October 20, 2026, prints 10:02 p.m. ET. St. Jude's page says the flight raised more than $250 million. The mission site says over $240 million.
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Texas Monthly reported a closed-session item for about 1,300 acres in Cameron County. Parks and Wildlife said the November meeting is not considering a sale of the Boca Chica property. Abbott said it is not coming up for a vote anytime soon.
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The Polaris Program dates liftoff to 5:23 a.m. ET on September 10 and splashdown to 3:36:54 a.m. EDT on September 15. SpaceNews dates the spacewalk to September 12 and names Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis. 1,408.1 kilometers is the program's apogee. About 1,400 is SpaceNews's.
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SpaceX's mission record, read the evening of October 19, 2026, targets no earlier than October 20 at 6:30 a.m. ET, with an October 21 backup. Spaceflight Now says Monday was scrubbed for recovery-zone weather. Starfall's size is the FAA's May 2026 assessment.
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NASASpaceflight reports a November 8 no-earlier-than date for Flight 15, with Booster 22 and Ship 42, and a December aim for Flight 16. Mr. Musk's four-to-six-weeks line is from an October 10 interview. Flight 14's outcome is SpaceX's post-flight page.
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On February 6, 2018, Falcon Heavy's demonstration flight carried a cherry-red first-generation Tesla Roadster. JPL catalogues it as Tesla Roadster (spacecraft), 2018-017A. The side boosters landed. The center core did not. This page does not state a live position.
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SpaceX said on October 13, 2026, that Ship 40 is the first Starship to return to its launch site and that it is vertical in a Megabay. Flight 13, the July 24 liftoff, Booster 20, the Indian Ocean splashdown, and the sea return are Space.com's account.
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Federal Register notice FAA-2026-12808 opens a programmatic EIS on a higher Starship and Super Heavy cadence at Boca Chica. The 100/200 and 456/912 figures are study bounds for a proposed action. They are not an approved license.
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Ukrainian officials said Starshield, the government system, was slowed without warning. Musk says the U.S. military and the president set those limits. Who inside the White House gave any order is still unnamed.
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On Oct. 16, 2026, Reliance's first public reply welcomed satellite competition, including Starlink, and said Jio also awaits clearances. A GMPCS licence, a security assessment, and spectrum assignment are three different steps.
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Official SpaceX channels — company primary source, listed for completeness in the media graph.
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Independent spaceflight educator and photographer covering rockets, Starship, and industry — directory listing, not endorsement.
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Source-backed map of Starship and Super Heavy — design claims, reusability, refueling, Moon/Mars roles, and Starbase.
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SpaceX Starbase development, manufacturing, test, and launch site — claims about production scale and catch towers with labels.
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Source-backed map of NASA Artemis, SpaceX Starship HLS, lunar cargo language, and future moon-base concepts with strict labels.
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Independent spaceflight media covering Starbase, Starship tests, and commercial space — directory listing, not endorsement.
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Company/product hub for Starlink — space internet infrastructure, SpaceX relationship, and claim discipline.
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Source-backed map of SpaceX Mars vision, Starship dependencies, settlement stack, and claim labels for timelines and cargo.
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Independent YouTube channel covering commercial space competition and Starship narrative — directory listing, not endorsement.
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Independent spaceflight educator — directory listing, not endorsement.
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Independent Starship and SpaceX analysis — directory listing, not endorsement.
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Starbase livestream community cameras — directory listing, not endorsement.
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Starbase construction and Starship production coverage — directory listing, not endorsement.
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Commercial space trade press — directory listing, not endorsement.
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Ars Technica space desk — directory listing, not endorsement.
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97 tracked objects reentered in the last 30 days — 47 of them Starlink — and 100 more are already decaying. The running list, by name, from the catalog.
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Starship, Starbase, Starlink, Artemis, Moon bases, Mars, refueling, cargo, mining, power, and settlement architecture — with claim discipline.
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How many Starlink satellites are in orbit today? 11,160 by the reconciled catalog count — 12,446 launched in the legacy catalog plus newer satellites in live tracking — with the shells, the launch-year table, and the 1,813 that have already come down.
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Flight by flight: Falcon 1's four launches from Omelek Island — the corroded fitting, the slosh, the stage recontact that killed Flight 3 on August 2, 2008, and Flight 4's orbit on September 28, 2008 — with Musk's August 2008 statement, his IEEE Spectrum account, and his August 30, 2026 post printed separately.
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The honest answer to 'how many satellites are in orbit' — 20,364 payloads (17,364 active) and 35,394 tracked objects total as of October 24, 2026 — plus a live Starlink map, a Starlink tracker and a decay watch, all rebuilt from the Space Force catalog every day.
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Original summaries of official SpaceX posts from September 2016 through October 8, 2026, in a reverse-chronological timeline with sources.
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SpaceX said on October 8, 2026 that it agreed to buy up to 14 MHz of paired 800 MHz spectrum and that the FCC authorized a 15,000-satellite Starlink Mobile Gen2 system.
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On September 15, 2026, SpaceX said Starship flights from Flight 14 would begin as orbital missions, after 13 tests flown on intentionally suborbital paths.
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On May 21, 2026, SpaceX said Fram2 commander Chun Wang will fly a two-year Starship Mars flyby, after a commercial lunar flyby with Dennis and Akiko Tito.
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On May 12, 2026, SpaceX listed Starship V3 and Super Heavy V3 changes, including three larger grid fins, Raptor 3 thrust figures, and a first flight from Starbase Pad 2 on Flight 12.
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On October 30, 2025, SpaceX reviewed Starship lunar-lander progress, including 49 completed HLS milestones, a 600-cubic-meter cabin claim, and 2026 targets for a long flight and a propellant transfer.
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On September 18, 2025, SpaceX argued Florida ranges can host airport-like launch rates and said Falcon was on track for more than 100 Florida launches that year.
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On September 8, 2025, SpaceX said it would buy EchoStar's 50 MHz of U.S. S-band spectrum and global MSS licenses, and described a first-generation direct-to-cell network of more than 600 satellites.
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On August 15, 2025, SpaceX reported Flight 9's booster and ship losses and the June 18 destruction of Ship 36 during a static-fire propellant load.
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On June 19, 2025, SpaceX said the Starship being prepared for Flight 10 was destroyed the night before during propellant loading, with no injuries reported.
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On May 22, 2025, SpaceX said Flight 8 caught the booster a third time and lost the ship after a center Raptor failure about five and a half minutes into the ship burn.
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On March 3, 2025, SpaceX described a Florida Gigabay targeted for the end of 2026 and a Starship pad at Kennedy LC-39A, with a first Florida launch hoped for late 2025 pending reviews.
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On February 24, 2025, SpaceX said Flight 7 caught the booster a second time and lost the ship after a harmonic response and an attic fire.
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On September 10, 2024, SpaceX said Flight 5 hardware had been ready since early August and criticized an FAA license estimate of late November.
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On August 12, 2024, SpaceX named Chun Wang, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Eric Philips, and Rabea Rogge to Fram2, a Dragon flight planned as the first crewed polar orbit.
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On July 29, 2024, SpaceX described sonic booms from a returning Super Heavy as louder than Falcon's but not an injury risk, based on Flight 4 splashdown data.
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On July 26, 2024, SpaceX said Dragon trunks were surviving reentry in pieces and that splashdowns would return to the U.S. West Coast so the trunk could be aimed at the ocean.
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On July 25, 2024, SpaceX said a July 11 upper-stage oxygen leak left 20 Starlink satellites in a 135 km perigee, and that all of them reentered.
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On May 24, 2024, SpaceX said the March 14 Flight 3 test completed the ship's ascent burn, then lost the booster on the landing burn and the ship during reentry.
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On May 4, 2024, SpaceX described a new extravehicular suit for Polaris Dawn, targeted for no earlier than summer 2024, and said all four crew would be exposed to vacuum together.
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On April 6, 2024, SpaceX pointed to an April 4 Starbase talk by Elon Musk on making life multiplanetary, including a goal of about a million people and several million tonnes to Mars.
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On February 26, 2024, SpaceX said the November 18, 2023 flight finished a full booster burn and hot-staging, then lost the booster and the ship.
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On September 8, 2023, SpaceX said the April 20 first flight was lost after aft fires cut engine control, and listed hot-staging, electric steering, and a flame deflector as the fixes.
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On May 10, 2023, SpaceX said it would launch Vast's Haven-1 station no earlier than August 2025, then a four-person Dragon mission for up to 30 days.
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On December 8, 2022, SpaceX said Yusaku Maezawa named ten crewmembers, including two backups, for a week-long Starship flight within 200 km of the Moon.
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On November 15, 2022, SpaceX said NASA had modified the Starship HLS contract to add an Artemis IV demonstration and a docking with Gateway.
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On October 12, 2022, SpaceX named Dennis and Akiko Tito as the first two crew on a second commercial Starship flight around the Moon, within 200 km, after dearMoon and Polaris.
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On August 25, 2022, SpaceX and T-Mobile said Starlink would text ordinary phones in dead zones, with a beta targeted for the end of 2023 and voice and data later.
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On February 22, 2022, SpaceX described low-orbit operations, a 99 percent satellite reliability claim, and 3,300 collision-avoidance maneuvers in six months.
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On February 14, 2022, SpaceX said Jared Isaacman's Polaris Program would fly up to three missions, starting with a Dragon spacewalk targeted for the fourth quarter of 2022.
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On February 10, 2022, SpaceX noted a Starbase presentation by Elon Musk on Starship as a fully reusable system for orbit, the Moon, and Mars.
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On February 8, 2022, SpaceX said up to 40 of 49 Starlink satellites launched on February 3 would reenter after a storm raised drag by as much as 50 percent.
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On November 23, 2021, SpaceX said Falcon 9 launched NASA's DART planetary-defense mission from Vandenberg at 10:21 p.m. PST, the company's first interplanetary flight.
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On November 11, 2021, SpaceX said Crew-3's Dragon docked to the station at 6:32 p.m. EST after a November 10 launch from Kennedy LC-39A.
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On November 8, 2021, SpaceX said the Crew-2 astronauts splashed down off Pensacola at 10:33 p.m. EST after 199 days, then the longest U.S. spacecraft mission.
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On September 18, 2021, SpaceX said the all-civilian Inspiration4 crew splashed down off Florida at 7:06 p.m. EDT after three days in a 575-kilometer orbit.
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On June 2, 2021, SpaceX said Axiom would fly three more private Dragon missions to the station through 2023, after a first flight then targeted for January 2022.
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On May 5, 2021, SpaceX said Starship SN15 flew to about 10 km on three Raptors and landed on the pad.
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On May 2, 2021, SpaceX said Crew-1 splashed down off Florida at 2:56 a.m. EDT after 167 days, the first night crew splashdown for a U.S. ship since Apollo 8.
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On April 24, 2021, SpaceX said Crew-2 docked at 5:08 a.m. EDT on the first crew flight of a previously flown Falcon 9 and Dragon.
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On April 16, 2021, SpaceX said NASA had selected Starship as the lander to return astronauts to the Moon, and gave early prototype and Raptor test counts.
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On March 30, 2021, SpaceX said SN11 reached about 10 km and broke up shortly after the landing burn started.
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On March 3, 2021, SpaceX said SN10 landed at the end of a 10 km flight and then broke up on the pad.
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On March 2, 2021, SpaceX said the dearMoon project was taking applications for eight civilians to join Yusaku Maezawa on a week-long Starship lunar flyby targeted for 2023.
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On February 2, 2021, SpaceX said SN9 flew to about 10 km and hit hard after one Raptor failed to relight for the landing flip.
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On February 1, 2021, SpaceX said Falcon 9 would launch Inspiration4, an all-commercial Dragon crew, from LC-39A no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2021.
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On December 9, 2020, SpaceX said SN8 climbed, transitioned to header tanks, and flipped to the landing point, then hit hard because header-tank fuel pressure was low.
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On November 16, 2020, SpaceX said Crew-1 docked at 11:01 p.m. EST after a November 15 launch, the first six-month crew rotation.
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On November 10, 2020, SpaceX said NASA had certified Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon for station crew rotations, and listed the test counts behind that decision.
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On October 24, 2020, SpaceX said a 60-satellite Starlink launch from SLC-40 was Falcon's 100th success, with 63 landings and 45 reflights.
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On September 25, 2020, SpaceX said the Space Force would let it recover and later refly boosters on GPS missions, and restated its NSSL Phase 2 selection.
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On August 5, 2020, SpaceX said SN5 flew to 150 meters on one Raptor and landed on August 4 at Boca Chica.
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On August 2, 2020, SpaceX said Behnken and Hurley splashed down at 2:48 p.m. EDT after 63 days, closing the Demo-2 test of crew transport.
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On May 30, 2020, SpaceX said Falcon 9 launched Behnken and Hurley at 3:22 p.m. EDT and Dragon docked to the station the next day.
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On April 28, 2020, SpaceX described sun visors, a knife-edge climb attitude, and a goal of about magnitude 7 so satellites would not stand out to the eye or saturate detectors.
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On April 17, 2020, SpaceX and NASA targeted May 27 for Demo-2, with Behnken and Hurley, and listed escape, parachute, and docking tests already done.
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On January 19, 2020, SpaceX said an uncrewed Crew Dragon aborted from Falcon 9 about 90 seconds after a 10:30 a.m. EST liftoff and splashed down under four Mark III parachutes.
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On September 29, 2019, SpaceX noted a September 28 talk in Cameron County by Elon Musk on the Starship and Super Heavy design.
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On September 1, 2016, a Falcon 9 was destroyed during a static fire at SLC-40. SpaceX later traced it to a helium COPV in the upper-stage oxygen tank and targeted a January 8 return to flight.
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