The inside story of SpaceX’s historic rocket landing that changed launch forever - Ars Technica

kept by eddie dec 19, 25

Ten years after SpaceX's first Falcon 9 landing, the inside story details how the company overcame the CRS-7 launch failure and risky propellant densification to achieve rocket reuse.

SpaceX & the Sentient Sun
SpaceX's strategy to build a Mars city, lunar factories, and orbital AI data centers is driven by Iain M. Banks' Culture utopia, with Falcon 9 and Starlink funding the stack.
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SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket - Ars Technica
SpaceX plans to reduce Falcon 9 launches from 165 in 2025 to roughly 140-145 in 2026 as it shifts focus and launch infrastructure toward the larger Starship rocket.
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Elon Musk Relies on Gwynne Shotwell to Make SpaceX Soar - WSJ
The WSJ profiles Gwynne Shotwell's role managing crises like Musk's threat to decommission a spacecraft as SpaceX's IPO approaches.
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Can NASA Really Land Astronauts on the Moon by 2028?
NASA's 2028 Moon landing goal depends heavily on the decisions and timelines of Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin.
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Elon Musk says Tesla’s restarted Dojo3 will be for ‘space-based AI compute’
Tesla plans to restart Dojo3 chip for space-based AI compute, using SpaceX's Starship to launch compute satellites.
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