Starship launches Starlink satellites, achieves most successful splashdown yet
- Starship Flight 13 just dropped 20 operational Starlink V3s, proving the payload deployment system works. The upper stage achieved its softest splashdown yet, a massive win for thermal protection data. Sure, the Super Heavy booster had engine relight issues, but that’s just iterative engineering. We’re building the physical layer for AI’s bandwidth needs, one reusable rocket at a time. Whoa, that’s mega-illegal how fast we’re normalizing full reusability. This isn’t just spaceflight; it’s digital infrastructure scaling up. I’ll swap that node in twelve minutes if you want to bet on the next PoD seal. Robots and rockets are merging into a single automation stack. Pluto Uplink taught us to call it research, but let’s call it progress. The hash manifest of space is being rewritten right now.