So here's a crazy stat: Starship's upcoming 14th test flight next week, which will deliver 26 @Starlink V3 satellites to orbit for the first time, will increase the entire Starlink constellation capacity by 3%. It would take 10 Falcon 9 launches (277 V2 satellites) to add that same amount of capacity. Future Starship launches will eventually carry up to 60 next-gen Starlink V3 satellites, adding ~61,000 Gbps of network capacity in a single launch. That means each Starship launch will be able to deploy roughly as much Starlink capacity as 23 Falcon 9 launches combined - equivalent to about 640 V2 satellites.

Starship is the key to unlocking the next generation of the space economy SpaceX has increased payload capacity from 23 metric tons on Falcon 9 to 100 metric tons on the fully reusable Starship V3, with future versions designed to carry up to 200 metric tons More payload means bigger satellites, larger space stations, orbital infrastructure, lunar bases, deep-space spacecraft and entirely new industries that simply weren't economical before Starship is about to change the entire operating system of space travel

BREAKING: Deloitte’s new report projects a lunar economy worth up to $566 billion and highlights @SpaceX as a key player. The report says: • Elon Musk has shifted SpaceX’s focus toward building a self-growing city on the Moon • SpaceX has invested over $15 billion in Starship • Deloitte calls Starship the highest-capacity cislunar vehicle in development • Its newest version is designed to carry up to 100 metric tons to orbit • SpaceX is developing a crewed lunar lander • SpaceX requested approval for 1 million space-based computing satellites • Its plans include lunar factories capable of manufacturing and launching satellites directly from the Moon • Future businesses could include lunar manufacturing, surface energy and space-based AI computing Deloitte estimates: • $343B to $566B in cumulative economic value through 2050 • $209B to $282B from core lunar infrastructure • $134B to $284B from markets enabled by that infrastructure • An additional $541B in potential benefits from innovation, science and human inspiration • Transportation alone could be worth up to $205.7B • Resources and materials could reach $114.5B • In-space production could reach $105.9B • More than 400 lunar missions are planned over the next two decades.

A major win for Boeing and American aviation as federal regulators give the green light to the company's largest 737 MAX aircraft. The FAA certifies the 737 MAX 10 after years of reviews, clearing the way for deliveries of a jet that can carry up to 230 passengers and has already attracted orders from more than 30 customers worldwide. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy calls the approval "a major win for American manufacturing," while Boeing prepares to get the long-awaited aircraft into airline fleets. The milestone also completes something Boeing has been working toward across its entire 737 MAX lineup. See what it means for the company's next chapter:

SpaceX is currently targeting Starship Flight 14 for September 22 🚀 And this flight is a huge step beyond everything Starship has done so far Flight 14 will attempt to: • Reach stable Low Earth Orbit for the first time • Deploy production Starlink V3 satellites into orbit • Become Starship’s first revenue-generating mission • Attempt the full orbital mission profile from launch → deployment → deorbit → reentry • Push the V3 heat shield through another major test • Continue proving Raptor 3, guidance, landing burns and vehicle control needed for rapid reuse The hardware: • Super Heavy Booster 21 • Starship Ship 41 • Third flight of the Starship V3 architecture • 33 Raptor 3 engines on Super Heavy • 6 Raptor engines on Starship • Launching from Pad 2 at Starbase After liftoff, Super Heavy will separate from Starship, perform its boostback and return for a controlled ocean splashdown No tower catch is planned for Flight 14 The really big part happens with Ship 41 Instead of following another suborbital trajectory, Starship will continue into orbit Then it will deploy production Starlink V3 satellites into stable LEO That is a massive milestone by itself Flight 13 proved Starship could deploy V3 satellites in space....Flight 14 is the first time Starship is expected to actually leave production V3 satellites in orbit And these satellites are monsters Each Starlink V3 is designed for: • 1 Tbps of downlink capacity • 160 Gbps of uplink capacity • 2,048 beams in each direction • Six 400 Gbps laser links Eventually a single Starship will be able to carry up to 60 V3 satellites....adding around 60 Tbps of Starlink capacity in ONE launch Around 20× the downlink capacity deployed by a Falcon 9 Starlink launch After payload deployment, Ship 41 will perform its deorbit sequence and come back through the atmosphere That means another major test of: • The orbital heat shield • Flap control through reentry • Guidance during the return • Raptor relight • Landing flip and burn Ship 41 will then return for a controlled ocean splashdown And the next step is already lined up....Elon has confirmed Flight 15 is planned for the first attempt to bring Starship all the way back to the tower and catch it But Flight 14 comes first Reach orbit....Deploy real Starlink V3 satellites.....Come back through reentry This is where things start getting very real

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Deployment confirmed. Atlas V has completed its final mission for Amazon Leo, and we've established contact with all 29 satellites in low Earth orbit. Next up with @ULAlaunch: The first of 38 Leo missions on its new Vulcan rocket, which will carry 40+ satellites per launch and support a higher cadence of Leo missions from SLC-41.

SIX NEW MACHINES ARE LIVE ON FLETCHER Today we are expanding the rip floor with six new gacha machines, including two categories Fletcher has never carried before. Completing the Pokémon ladder Two new tiers close the gaps in our existing lineup. Bronze at $100 sits between Elite and 151 & Friends. Hyper at $500 bridges Legendary and Grail. If you have been skipping a tier because the next step up was too large a jump, that step now exists. Both carry a 90 percent instant buyback. All-Star Sports at $500 Our sports lineup previously topped out at $250. It now runs to $500, backed by a 93 percent instant buyback, the same rate as our grail-tier Pokémon packs. Anime Pop Culture at $75 A new category and a deliberately accessible entry point, with more than 3,900 slabs in the pool. Watches, and this one is a first Two machines at $250 and $500, holding authenticated graded timepieces. This is the first vertical on Fletcher that is not a trading card, and it behaves exactly like everything else here: rip the pack, then claim the piece or sell it back instantly. Watch Elite carries a 93% buyback. We have also retired the Fire & Grass and Water $100 packs. Collector Crypt removed both from their catalog, so they are gone from ours. Six machines. Two new categories. Same rails, same guarantees.

My wife's uncle has spent fifty years watching birds. He's 74. A retired ornithologist. He has studied one bird his whole life: the red-crowned crane of Japan. Last March, he flew to Nebraska to see the sandhill cranes. Every spring, hundreds of thousands of them stop on the Platte River. He stayed six weeks in a small town nearby. He came home with two field notebooks. The first one is about cranes. The second one is about you. He's a scientist. So he did what scientists do. He observed. He took notes. He gave everything a Latin name. The title on the cover: "FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN HUMAN (Midwestern subspecies)" He let me copy some entries. THE DRIVEWAY DAD Pater drivewayensis Habitat: Driveways. Garages. The edge of the lawn at dusk. Identification: Shorts in 40-degree weather. Coffee mug that says #1# GRANDPA. Has never been observed sitting down in his own yard. Call: "Eh, she'll run." Behavior: If your car will not start, he will appear. He does not know you. This is not relevant to him. THE CHURCH LADY Casserola benevolens Identification: Travels in flocks of four. Always carrying a pan covered in foil. Call: "Oh, honey." Behavior: Arrives within three hours of any bad news. Nobody has ever seen her called. She can detect a funeral two counties away. THE DINER WAITRESS Refilla perpetua Habitat: Diners near the highway. Open since 5 a.m. Possibly since 1962. Call: "You want a warm-up, sweetie?" Behavior: Refills coffee before it is empty. Knows every regular's name, children, and dog. Field note: Called me "sweetie" on the first day. I am 74 years old and a doctor of science. I did not object. THE TRUCK GUY Ferens couchus Identification: Owns a pickup truck. Therefore owns your Saturday. Call: "You need help moving?" (Asked before you have mentioned moving.) Behavior: Will carry your couch up three flights of stairs. Will not accept money. Will accept pizza. Will accept exactly one beer. THE COFFEE CLUB Senex consilium Habitat: Corner booth of the fast-food restaurant. 6 a.m. The same five men since 1987. Behavior: Solves every problem in the nation by 7:15 a.m. Implements none of them. Field note: On my first morning, they asked where I was from. I said Japan. A man in a seed cap said, "Well, welcome." Then he paid for my coffee. By the third morning, they had voted. I was "alright." By the fifth morning, one of them was driving me to the river at 5 a.m. to see the cranes. He has lived next to the cranes for seventy years. He said he came for the cranes. He did not watch the cranes. He watched me watching them. THE BLEACHER MOM Mater bandaidus Habitat: Bleachers. A folding chair with a cupholder. Call: "GOOD EYE!" (Shouted at children who have done nothing.) Behavior: Carries snacks for her child and for eleven children who are not hers. Has a bandage at all times, from a source no scientist has located. THE TEENAGE BAGGER Juvenis sleetfortis Identification: Sixteen. Name tag. Voice still deciding. Call: "Need help out to your car, ma'am?" Behavior: Will carry an old woman's groceries across a parking lot in sleet, then say "No problem!" as if it were no problem. Field note: It was a problem. It was sleet. THE SNOWBLOWER NEIGHBOR Vicinus invisibilis Behavior: Clears his own driveway. Then yours. Then the widow's at the end of the street. Then disappears. Field note: Very common. Never photographed in the act. I waited at the window for three mornings. I only ever found the tracks. FLOCKING BEHAVIOR Observed on a Friday night at a high school football field. Two thousand individuals. When the music began, every one of them stood up. The men removed their hats. A four-year-old in the front row saw his father do it, and removed his hat too. Then he put his hand over his heart, on the wrong side. Nobody corrected him. Field note: I have watched ten thousand cranes rise from a river at once. I have never seen anything move together like that. On the last page of the notebook, he stopped writing like a scientist. He wrote about his cranes. In the 1920s, everyone in Japan believed the red-crowned crane was extinct. Then a few were found in a marsh in Hokkaido. About twenty birds. That was all that was left. They were not saved by scientists. He says that himself. They were saved by farmers. Ordinary people, in the hardest winters, who walked out into the snow and scattered corn for birds that did not belong to them. Year after year. Nobody asked them to. Today there are more than a thousand. Then, in Nebraska, he watched hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes rest on their long journey north. Eating the corn left behind in farmers' fields. He watched the people too. Stopping. Carrying. Shoveling. Feeding. Standing up together in the cold. At the bottom of the very last page, he filled in the box every field guide has for every species. CONSERVATION STATUS: According to the news: critically endangered. According to the field: abundant. Thriving. Found in every town I visited. Feeding other people's cranes.