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NASA is targeting no earlier than 8:05 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 7, for Crew-12 to leave the station. Splashdown off California is about 11:34 a.m. EDT Thursday. The crew has been up since Feb. 14.
NASA says Dragon docked to Harmony's forward port at 7:05 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1. The hatch opened at 9:19 p.m. EDT. That trip is the fastest U.S. launch-to-docking in station history.
SpaceX lists SDA's fourth Tranche 1 data transport mission for 1:17 a.m. PT Oct. 5 from Vandenberg. The backup is 1:08 a.m. PT Oct. 6. Falcon 9 is set to put 21 satellites into the fourth orbital plane.
SpaceX still lists NROL-97 for 11:53 p.m. ET on Oct. 1 from Kennedy LC-39A. The backup is 11:48 p.m. ET on Oct. 2. The two side boosters are planned to land at LZ-1 and LZ-2.
SpaceX's own writeup says a Raptor vacuum engine quit on the way up, all 26 Starlink V3 satellites checked in, and Ship did its first deorbit burn before a three-engine splashdown.
Flight 14 put Starship in orbit for the first time on Sept. 28, deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and splashed down north of Hawaii a little over three hours after liftoff.
Project Suncatcher's first test satellite, MVP, carries four Google TPUs and rides SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare from Vandenberg. It will run Gemini in 15-minute bursts.
The FAA license for Starship's first orbital attempt was reported issued late Saturday. Here's the Monday window at Pad 2, and the booster and heat shield fixes SpaceX is actually testing.
NASA and SpaceX polled go on Sept. 25: Falcon 9 from SLC-40 no earlier than 11:10 a.m. EDT Oct. 1, with Watkins, Delaney, Kutryk, and Teteryatnikov.
After a year of slipped 2026 dates, Tesla locked a Thursday Oct. 1 reveal in Waco at 8:30 p.m. ET — invites out, thruster teaser on, near SpaceX McGregor.
SpaceX retargeted its first orbital Starship attempt to as early as Monday, Sept. 28 — still pending regulatory approval. What that phrase means in the week before the window.
SpaceX is aiming Starship at Earth orbit for the first time — ~275 km, ~6 orbits, 26 Starlink V3 — with the FAA license still the gate and the window now sliding toward Sept. 28.
Aug. 27: SpaceX finished inspecting Flight 13’s Ship 40 off Christmas Island, bagged heatshield samples, and loaded the scorched ship onto a semi-submersible for a months-long crawl back to Texas.