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SpaceX Hits 600 Rocket Landings, Wins $175M Mars Deal | KeepTrack X Report
SpaceX's 600th Falcon 9 booster landing coincides with a $175M NASA Mars contract win and the final GPS III satellite launch this week.
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· x reportSpaceX Targets 600th Falcon Booster Landing in Starlink 17-22 Mission | KeepTrack X Report
SpaceX attempts its 600th Falcon 9 booster landing during the Starlink 17-22 mission, lofting 25 satellites from Vandenberg SFB on April 19.
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The Rocket That Refused to Sink
On April 18, 2014, a Falcon 9 first stage did something no orbital rocket had ever done before. It fired its engines on the way down, steered itself through the atmosphere using grid fins that did not yet exist, and touched the Atlantic Ocean softly enough to survive the impact. Nobody recovered it. The data was the whole point.
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· x reportStarship V3 Full Static Fire Clears Path to Flight 12 | KeepTrack X Report
SpaceX completes first full-duration Starship V3 upper stage static fire, targeting Flight 12 in May as Starlink surpasses 10,242 working satellites.
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· x reportStarship V3 All-33 Static Fire Clears Path to Flight 12 | KeepTrack X Report
SpaceX fired all 33 Raptor 3 engines on Starship V3, while a 1,000th Starlink launch of 2026 and Apple's $11.6B Amazon satellite deal reshape the industry.
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· x report1,000th Starlink Launch of 2026 Hits Milestone | KeepTrack X Report
SpaceX launches its 1,000th Starlink satellite of 2026 on Falcon 9, adding 29 more craft to a 10,191-working-satellite constellation.