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SpaceX is targeting October 13 at 00:11 UTC for Starlink Group 15-25 from SLC-4E at Vandenberg, carrying 27 satellites. The first-stage booster, B1088, is planned for its 20th flight and a droneship landing.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, October 15 for a classified U.S. Space Force Falcon 9 mission from SLC-4E at Vandenberg. The four-hour window opens at 4:44 p.m. PT; the booster will land on a droneship.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 6:33 a.m. ET to launch the 35th commercial resupply mission from Cape Canaveral. Dragon will dock to the station's Harmony module and return in mid-November.
A SpaceX subsidiary has asked Florida regulators to approve a 16-inch gas line through Brevard County, saying trucks can't keep up with the liquefied natural gas its Starship launches need. A local utility objects.
Elon Musk said SpaceX's Grok Bot agent will use whichever back-end model is most likely to give the best outcome for a task, naming Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno.
The X account of SpaceXAI, the company behind Grok, now goes by @SpaceXSI with the display name SpaceX Super Intelligence, completing a rebrand Elon Musk floated on October 4.
A Falcon 9 carried 21 Space Development Agency data transport satellites from Vandenberg on October 10, the fourth of nine Tranche 1 launches. Space.com says it was the 111th Falcon 9 flight of the year.
Venezuela's government authorized SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service to operate in the country, and the telecom regulator granted a general license and seven Ku-band concessions.
NASASpaceflight reports an FAA planning slide lists Starship Flight 15 no earlier than November 8. SpaceX removed Ship 42's engines and sent it back for more cryogenic proof testing.
SpaceX says it has agreed to acquire up to 14 MHz of paired low-band spectrum in the 800 MHz band across the US, which it says will help Starlink Mobile signals reach inside buildings.