Today's launch will be the latest in a series of milestones that SpaceX has notched recently. For example, the company launched two Falcon 9 missions on Sunday (Oct. 19); one sent the 10,000th Starlink satellite to LEO, and the other was the record-breaking 31st flight for that particular Falcon 9's first stage.

Elon Musk 's space technology company, SpaceX, moved Bitcoin for the first time in three months on Oct. 21. As per the on-chain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence, a SpaceX-linked crypto wallet transferred 2,495 Bitcoin worth approximately $268.5 million in the first on-chain transfer since July 24.

SpaceX has settled a lawsuit filed by the maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity over accusations that Elon Musk's rocket company trespassed and damaged a plot of land the card company owns in Texas.

Elon Musk lashed out at Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on X Tuesday, after Duffy suggested NASA may sideline SpaceX from its moon mission.

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A Falcon 9 carrying 28 of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 1:39 p.m. EDT (1639 GMT). It was the record-breaking 31st mission for this Falcon 9's first stage, a booster designated 1067.

Many of the scam centres appeared to have installed large numbers of Starlink receivers on their roofs after Thailand cut their internet and power connections.

Muon Space is integrating SpaceX's 'mini space lasers' into its own satellite network, providing a way to access Starlink for real-time data connectivity.