A fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. “The Holy Grail of Rocketry” continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you onboard a high-seas race to recover a floating Starship

STARLINK SATS DODGED OVER 207,000 POTENTIAL COLLISIONS IN 6 MONTHS! SpaceX moved its first- and second-generation Starlink satellites out of harm’s way 207,152 times over six months. The Space Review reported the figure, citing a SpaceX filing with the FCC on July 1. The company orders a maneuver once the calculated probability of a collision reaches 3 in 10 million. That threshold is more than 300 times stricter than the 1-in-10,000 benchmark the same filing describes as the industry norm. Probability isn’t the only trigger: SpaceX also applies a minimum safe separation distance between objects. Maneuvers in the hundreds of thousands are nothing new for the constellation, which has previously logged 355,000 collision-avoidance moves in a single year.

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 Flight 14 is about to take Starlink deployment to another level Starship will carry 26 Starlink V3 satellites to orbit Each V3 satellite is designed to add around 1 Tbps of downlink capacity That means: • 26 satellites • ~26 Tbps of new network capacity • Around 10× the capacity added by a single Falcon 9 launch carrying V2 Mini satellites After deployment, the satellites will unfold their antennas and solar arrays, establish RF and laser links with the Starlink network, raise their orbits, complete on-orbit checkouts.....and begin serving customers within weeks And there’s another wild part 3 of the satellites have been modified with cameras specifically to scan Starship’s heat shield after deployment and send imagery back to SpaceX So one Starship flight is not only massively expanding Starlink capacity..... The satellites themselves will also be watching Starship in space and helping SpaceX prepare it for future returns to the launch site

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BREAKING: SpaceX has signed a Starfall mission deal with Luxembourg-based Space Cargo for Starship’s first commercial mission, planned for 2028 Space Cargo plans to fly the BentoBox system aboard Starfall, carrying and safely returning up to 1 ton of customer payloads from orbit

All-In Summit: Elon Musk & Gwynne Shotwell -- AI Risks and Peer Review -- Starship -- Terafab as Taiwan Insurance -- SpaceX/Tesla Merger Potential -- Management at SpaceX ++ much more! (0:00) SpaceX's @Gwynne_Shotwell joins The Besties! (1:45) Gwynne's SpaceX story, selling rockets, and working for Elon (6:45) Running SpaceX: AI, Starlink, Rockets, and X (13:43) Direct to cell with Starlink, retiring rockets, competition (18:34) Data centers in space (22:00) Management at SpaceX (27:37) @elonmusk joins: AI's real risk, model peer review, what he meant by "Dario is right" (36:53) Elon and Gwynne on their working relationship, Starship's future (46:16) Terafab, Tesla, Flying cars?, merging Tesla and SpaceX (52:51) Lying AIs, how to do AI peer review right $TSLA $SPCX

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell on data centers in space: “There is an expense to put data centers on the ground. You have to buy real estate, and as soon as someone finds out a supercompute center is going in, real estate goes from $3,000 an acre to $180,000 an acre. The time lag is incredible. Permits and licensing are pretty stifling. People are talking about generators in three years.” “We need compute now. The demand is insatiable right now. People need compute now. We need it now. So why data centers in space? We own launch. We have great launch capability, and that path is very well known. The real estate in space is infinite. It’s free.” “The cooling is there. The radiator looks at deep space, the coldest thing ever out there, so free cooling. You can put satellites in orbit that always face the sun. We’ll be making our own solar panels too. We’re building a factory outside Austin.”