Starship flight 14

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Before you left for Italy and before we won the Gabby Award for Best Podcast Series from the Georgia Association of Broadcas- casters for the second time, uh, we talked about the fact that, uh, s- uh, SpaceX getting ready to launch the, uh, Starship Flight 14.

Uh, we talked about it, and then it got kicked, uh, back a week, and then it got ca- So we had a couple times where we were like, "All right, we're waiting to find out when this thing's gonna launch," and, uh, it has now, uh, successfully launched.

And, um, y- so again, something else that happened while you were in Italy.

... you know, spiking a football, so that's, that's all it is.

And SpaceX should be spiking the football too, by the way, because in this launch that took place while I was away, they had a lot of successes.

So Starship Flight 14, and, uh, launched from, uh, from the Texas facility down there at Starbase, Texas, on September the 28th, and it was a historic flight because it marked Starship's first ever successful arrival into Earth orbit.

So they were able to put that Starship spacecraft in orbit around the Earth.

But it, it's been quite a couple weeks for them in terms of, you know, uh, in terms of what they've been doing.

Starship Flight 14, a number of, uh, booster recoveries, I think it was four.

So they, they've been out there, they've been executing, they've been doing the things that people, uh, who really wanna own the stock for the future have to be elated about.

In fact, I think it's actually incredibly impressive.

Then they're going to ramp up to potentially weekly or bi-weekly flights of Starship next year, continue deploying a ton of these Starlink satellites.

And just to give you a flavor of why this is such a big deal, there are some estimates that are saying that this starlink launch alone just this 26 satellites off starship flight 14 increased the entire bandwidth of the starlink network by three percent if we take a look at the starlink financials you can see that this business almost five billion in quarterly revenue almost half of that flowing down as cash flow or ebitda this is not only spacex's biggest and fastest growing business i mean we can get to the ai piece later but it's extremely profitable business and i can't stress enough that when people are doing financial analysis on SpaceX, they overlook this fact that the entire current business is based on launching stuff with Falcon 9.

Going forward, they're launching stuff with Starship, way more stuff, way cheaper to launch.

The first application of that is these new Starlink satellites, literally only adding 26 of them when there's already thousands of the old one on the network, increase the entire network capacity by 3%.

Let me know what you think in the comments below, but we got to keep following Starship.

I mean, it is looking to, and I know the flight could have gone on a little longer.

Some people are saying it wasn't a perfect flight 14, but in my book, deploying the cargo successfully that is going to make us a ton of money and immediately increasing the capacity of the whole Starlink network by 3%.

Those are the promises from the conference call.

I'm Tom Patton, and this is Space Commerce Week.

Starship reached orbit on Test Flight 14, marking a significant milestone toward NASA's goal of building an ongoing human presence on the Moon.

The super-heavy booster performed mostly nominally, though one of the 33 Raptor engines did shut down prematurely.

Still, the mission continued with a clean stage separation and booster return to Earth, splashing down in the Gulf of America about eight minutes after launch.

Did it actually happen? So our second story takes us out of Washington and into space.

On the 28th of September, SpaceX launched a Starship Flight 14 from Starbase in Texas.

And this was a major mission for SpaceX.

The planned mission was shortened after engine trouble, but reaching orbit and deploying operational satellites still represented a major milestone for the Starship program.

Welcome to today in space this episode we have a condensed shortened version of the starship flight 14 launch a very successful launch in my opinion they did a lot of great things and this one certainly didn't disappoint it was an early launch but they launched within the time the launch window and it was only the second change you know adjusted timeline that they launched on so For the most powerful rocket in the world, for them to do that, and it just took off on the pad and went to orbit for the first time is a huge success.

Lots of naysayers out there, but that is not anything new to SpaceX.

So this is a really momentous occasion, and it means that the next big thing is orbital refueling.

You get the deal.

Thanks for joining us.

Make sure to stay curious, spread love and spread science, and enjoy Starship Flight 14, the very first orbital flight of Starship.

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Maybe also worth mentioning this morning, Starship Flight 14 successfully deploying 26 satellites into orbit, one terabit per second each.

Maybe we'll dive into that next week.

And thank you, everyone, for joining us.