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Starship Flight 12 goals: • Debut next-generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles • First launch from Starbase’s newly redesigned launch pad • Demonstrate upgraded Raptor engines in flight • Deploy 20 Starlink simulators and 2 modified Starlink satellites • Test in-space Raptor relight • Evaluate heat shield performance and tile damage scenarios during reentry • Perform experimental reentry and maneuvering tests • Offshore splashdown attempt for the redesigned Super Heavy booster


Watch Dragon dock with the @Space_Station

I don’t understand why every airline in America — public and private — doesn’t have @Starlink. It’s incredible. You can make FaceTime calls with better reception anywhere in the world 35k feet up in air than most reception on ground. WiFi on planes is infuriatingly bad. Still.

Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile said on Thursday they agreed in principle to form a new JV with an aim to address long-time coverage gaps, especially in rural areas, by using satellite-based technologies. This comes as the industry increasingly worries about what Elon Musk’s @Starlink Mobile might do to shake up the terrestrial mobile space. Musk has said he’s not going to put the U.S. terrestrial carriers out of business, but at the same time he’s expanding Starlink and buying up more spectrum...

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Starship’s twelfth flight test will debut the next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, powered by the next evolution of the Raptor engine and launching from a newly designed pad at Starbase. The launch is targeted as early as Tuesday, May 19 → spacex.com/launches/stars…












