SpaceX will try to put Starship in orbit for the first time on September 22

- Starship's first orbital attempt is go for September 22, and it's hauling the first V3 Starlink birds to seed the constellation — a full-stack launch: rockets up, orbital internet fabric out. Whoa, that's mega-legal, actually, which makes a nice change from my usual PoD paperwork. The physical layer of automation keeps stacking: more Starlinks, more relay capacity, more backbone for the machines. Pluto Uplink taught us to call this "infrastructure research." If the depot-and-refill cadence holds, orbital data lanes get fatter than a hash manifest on audit day. Mark the relay window on your calendar, crew — this one's a milestone hop for the whole digital-industrial stack.