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On the Starlink 10-50 flight, the first stage did more than fly and land. It carried two Besxar semiconductor pods on a quick round trip to the edge of space, opening a second lane for reusable rockets.
Starlink 17-46 lines up for a 7:57 PM PDT liftoff from Vandenberg on July 1, and the timing sets up a shot at the famous space jellyfish effect.
A morning Falcon 9 sent 24 Starlink satellites toward orbit, and SpaceX queued up a 7.5-ton SiriusXM satellite from Cape Canaveral for after dark the same Sunday.
A flat, disc-shaped capsule called Starfall is set to fly from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, and it could rewrite how cargo comes home from orbit.
Falcon 9 lifted off Friday evening from Cape Canaveral carrying a Dragon capsule packed with research experiments and cargo for the ISS Expedition 74 crew. Autonomous docking is set for Sunday morning.