Space Weekend Thrills: Starship’s Historic Flight, Secret Spaceplane Soars & Cosmic Breakthroughs
SpaceX’s Starship reached space Aug. 26, deploying eight dummy Starlink satellites for the first time and surviving reentry before a controlled splashdown. Days later, SpaceX launched 28 more Starlink satellites and flew the secretive X-37B spaceplane. China launched a 10th batch of Guowang broadband satellites Aug. 25. NASA prepped three Sun-studying spacecraft for a late September Falcon 9 launch.