Starbase Update, with Ryan Caton

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Premiering on YouTube at 7:11pm CST (01:11 UTC).

Deployment

And RTLS touchdown for the booster:

LAUNCH! SpaceX B1097-3 launches Sentinel-6B from SLC-4E, Vandenberg.

Overview article:
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Starbase Summary (Nov 13-15, 2025):

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Available now to our YouTube members; will go public at 6:00pm CST (00:00 UTC).

For ambient sounds, use the “Klingon” audio track. For narration, select English (John “Das” Galloway) or Dutch (Martijn Luinstra). Enjoy!

An impressive feat of precision demolition, as a digger was used to carefully remove the back cover from one of the OLM Pad 1 legs lowering it gently to the ground and moving it out of the way for scrapping.
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Just over eight minutes later, the booster returned landing on the “Just Read The Instructions” droneship, out in the Atlantic Ocean. This marks the first time in history there are 3 orbital class boosters out in the Atlantic on their way back to shore (1 New Glenn, 2 Falcon 9)

Just hours after launching from nearby LC-39A, SpaceX has launched the Starlink 6-85 mission aboard the Falcon 9 B1078-24 from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, sending another batch of 29 Starlink v2-mini satellites into low-Earth orbit.

Just over eight minutes later, the booster returned to planet Earth, landing on the “A Shortfall Of Gravitas” droneship, stationed downrange in the Atlantic Ocean.

This completes the 563rd mission of a Falcon 9 rocket and is SpaceX’s 150th mission of the year.

[Video Credit 🎥: SpaceX]

SpaceX has launched the Starlink 6-89 mission at 10:08pm EST (03:08 UTC) aboard Falcon 9 booster B1092-8 from historic LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending another batch of 29 Starlink v2-mini satellites to low-Earth orbit.

[Video Credit 🎥: Max Evans, D Wise, and SpaceX]

New Glenn Nails Its First Landing! Rocket Lab Delays Neutron & More — This Week In Spaceflight with @elysiasegal.bsky.social
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Starbase Pad 1 had a very busy night last night, as workers cut up the first segments of the lower part of the OLM that was left, letting them fall to the ground. As the decommissioning continues, ahead of upgrade to the new pad design.
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Yesterday afternoon, New Glenn took its second flight, launching two spacecraft for the ESCAPADE mission. The clear skies and daylight launch this time around provided brilliant views of GS1 from ignition until reentry.
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A day after arriving to Starbase Launch Pad 2, the first of two Booster QD hoods was lifted and installed in place, one more major step ahead of the new pad becoming operational in the coming weeks.
follow along on NASASpaceflight Starbase Live
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Welcome home Shenzhou-20!
After 204 days in earth orbit, and a few days after the Shenzhou-21 crew arrived to the Tiangong space station, Taikonauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Ji landed safely back on earth, after a change of return capsule, due to space debris.
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After a few scrubs, ULA has launched their Atlas V 551 rocket on the Viasat -3 F2 mission from SLC 41 at the Cape Canaveral
Space Force Station. Closing out a busy day for the space coast.
On board today's mission was the ViaSat-3 F2 ultra-high-capacity communications satellite.
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Blue Origin have successfully landed their New Glenn booster, making them just the second company to ever land an orbital class rocket booster! The ESCAPADE payloads are destined for Mars, but they aren't going straight there...

Full explanation, by Ryan Caton, here: youtu.be/9hizNQXoe3Q

While the spaceflight world was focused on New Glenn's second launch and first landing, Starbase was busy preparing for its next phase, with a focus on the pad that will catch both boosters AND ships!
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