Elon Musk's SpaceX is counting down to the last launch of its version 2 Starship - and the last from the original Starbase launch tower known as Pad 1.

SpaceX plans to launch 24 of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites Monday (Oct. 13), bringing the total number of spacecraft lofted for the nascent broadband megaconstellation to 153.

This was the eleventh test flight for SpaceX's full-scale Starship, which founder and CEO Elon Musk intends to utilise to send humans to Mars.

SpaceX closed a troubled but instructive chapter in its Starship rocket program Monday with a near-perfect test flight that carried the stainless steel spacecraft halfway around the world from South Texas to the Indian Ocean.

SpaceX is offering the clearest look yet at the next major upgrade to Starlink, confirming the upcoming “V3” satellite is significantly longer and larger. As you can see, the V3 adopts a pair of longer solar arrays.