§ 00 — The Lede Starship V3 Flew. LEO Insertion Didn’t. A mostly successful first flight is a real milestone — but the payload manifest everyone is pricing in still depends on a capability Starship hasn’t demonstrated. Starship’s V3 configuration flew its first integrated flight test on approximately May 23, 2026, and SpaceX called the…
§ 00 — The Lede The cadence story isn’t SpaceX anymore — it’s everyone else trying to catch up Falcon 9 still owns the majority of launches YTD. The movement that actually matters this week is below that line. The headline number from this week’s data: a Starlink mission that, six years ago, would have…