SpaceX first reached orbit on September 28, 2008. Falcon 1, fourth attempt, after three straight failures left the company with money for exactly one more launch. Starship reached orbit this morning. September 28, 2026. Eighteen years to the day. The 2008 rocket carried a 364-pound aluminum dummy payload because no customer would risk real hardware on a vehicle that kept blowing up. Today's ship carried 26 Starlink V3 satellites, the first operational payload Starship has ever flown, into a…

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Starship performs its orbital insertion burn and enters orbit of Earth for the first time https://t.co/LodrSTnEnl