Moonshots, Starlinks & Cosmic Secrets: 48 Hours of Epic Space News (Aug 28–29, 2025)
Key Facts Launches & Spaceflight SpaceX’s Record-Breakers: SpaceX achieved back-to-back milestones with its Starlink launches. In the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 28, a Falcon 9 rocket (booster B1067) blasted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying 28 Starlink satellites – notably the booster’s 30th launch and landing, a new reuse record space.com mynews13.com. “Falcon 9’s first stage… [is] the first orbital-class rocket to successfully launch and land 30 times,” SpaceX declared after the booster touched down on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship mynews13.com. Just a day earlier, another Falcon 9 flight (Starlink 10-56) from Cape Canaveral notched SpaceX’s 400th droneship