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Irene Klotz

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Sep 28, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Irene Klotz

    Boeing, NASA Eye Starliner Uncrewed Return To Flight In December | Aviation Week (opens the original)

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    CAPE CANAVERAL—More than two years after the troubled crewed flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi, NASA and Boeing aim to return the spacecraft to flight with an uncrewed cargo run to the International Space Station (ISS) in late December or January. That flight test—the fourth in a series that began in December 2019—would be followed by what NASA hopes will be an operational ISS crew-rotation mission in 2028. Astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, a veteran of one long-duration ISS mi

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Irene Klotz

    Starship Reaches Orbit, Deploys Next-Gen Starlinks | Aviation Week (opens the original)

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    SpaceX capped a decade of development with the first orbital flight of its planned reusable deep-space transport. The Starship-Super Heavy launch system lifted off from SpaceX’s privately owned Starbase spaceport in southern Texas at 8:48 a.m. EDT Sept. 28. It was 18 years to the day that SpaceX reached orbit for the first time with its Falcon 1 rocket, an endeavor that nearly drove the startup out of business. More than 700 flights of the Falcon 9 followed. SpaceX also had conducted 13 suborbit

  3. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Irene Klotz

    FAA Clears SpaceX For Starship 14 Flight | Aviation Week (opens the original)

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    The FAA has licensed SpaceX for the orbital debut of the Starship-Super Heavy launch system, which remains in development after 13 suborbital flights and which will attempt deployment of 26 next-generation Starlink broadband satellites. SpaceX targets the launch from Starbase, Texas, between 8:15 and 9:30 a.m. EDT Sept. 28. “On Sept. 26, the FAA issued license authorization for the SpaceX Starship – Super Heavy Flight 14 launch and reentry operations,” the FAA said in a Sept. 27 statement. Altho

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Irene Klotz

    SpaceX Sets Sept. 22 For Next Starship Flight Test | Aviation Week (opens the original)

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    SpaceX is targeting Sept. 22 for launch of its first orbital Starship-Super Heavy flight test, with a targeted mission duration of nearly 10 hr. The launch window that day, as well as on the backup date of Sept. 23, opens at 7:15 a.m. EDT and closes at 9:14 a.m. Mission licensing from the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation is pending. The flight will mark the 14th for the Starship program, which launched for the first time on April 20, 2023. With Flight 14, SpaceX intends to deliver

  5. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Irene Klotz

    Blue Origin Wins NASA’s Nod For Mars Telecommunications Orbiter | Aviation Week (opens the original)

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    NASA has selected a Blue Origin proposal to use its Blue Ring platform as a telecommunications orbiter to support Mars missions, with service to begin by the end of 2028. The firm-fixed price contract, worth up to about $700 million, was awarded Sept. 1. NASA did not immediately say how many contenders submitted bids, but interested companies included Rocket Lab, SpaceX, Northrop Grumman and possibly others. In emails to Aviation Week, Rocket Lab declined to comment; Lockheed Martin said it did

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