SpaceX has silently published an unlisted video featuring a range of new views – most in crisp 4K resolution – of Falcon 9 launch and landing operations from 2017 through the end of 2018, providing some of the most detailed perspectives yet of the company’s workhorse rocket.
Despite the oddly buried nature of the video, unlisted on YouTube and hidden in plain sight at the top of the company’s Falcon 9 website page, it still offers a hint of the sheer quantity of content SpaceX has acquired after multiple years of operations and dozens upon dozens of Falcon 9 launches. Even further, almost all of the clips included in the 60-second ‘overview’ are likely the original-quality recordings generated while simultaneously streaming the same perspectives featured in past SpaceX webcasts, a feat that requires significant compression and reduced quality.
Prior to a major website update that went live on March 3rd, 2019 (presumably coordinated to follow the successful launch of Crew Dragon), the Falcon 9 section of SpaceX’s website had been effectively untouched – aside from minor modifications to performance statistics and some written descriptions – since September 2015, a period of around 42 months. In March, SpaceX updated all of its website’s Falcon and Dragon sections, including new descriptions and the first official renders of Falcon 9 and Heavy in their latest Block 5 configurations, as well as a modernized section dedicated to the just-debuted Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Most notably, of course, was an unlisted YouTube video linked at the top of the Falcon 9 page, offering 4K views of launches as recent December 2018’s SSO-A, the first time ever that the same Falcon 9 booster flew for the third time. Booster B1046.3 kicked off the video with a truly spectacular perspective of the rocket lifting off from SpaceX’s Vandenberg Air Force Base launch pad, easily one of the most beautiful (and equally significant) Falcon 9 launches ever.
Above is another exceptional star of the Falcon 9 overview video, showing several pre-Block 5 boosters at different points during the final minute or so of their return-to-launch-site (RTLS) recoveries at one of SpaceX’s Landing Zones. Although the quality was inherently far lower, all of these angles are immediately familiar to anyone who has watched a significant number of SpaceX’s excellent launch webcasts, most of which end up featuring glimpses of streamed tracking shots like those above.
Aside from the quasi-public views featured in this video, the incredible success of reusability has lead SpaceX to routinely install dozens of cameras – often off-the-shelf GoPros and other action cams – throughout Falcon 9’s first stage, something that executive Hans Koenigsmann has stated has been a boon for improving reliability and better understanding what SpaceX rockets go through during launch, reentry, and landing. One can only begin to imagine the countless terabytes of footage SpaceX has gathered over years and dozens of launches.
Up next on SpaceX’s manifest is the second-ever launch of Falcon Heavy for what will be the powerful rocket’s commercial debut, nominally placing the 6000 kg (13,200 lb) Arabsat 6A communications satellite into a high-energy geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) as early as April 7th. This will further be the first launch of Falcon Heavy in a Block 5 configuration and will see both side boosters return to SpaceX LZ-1 and LZ-2, with the center core attempting a landing aboard drone ship
Catch SpaceX’s 2018 “Falcon 9 Overview” in full below. Fingers crossed that SpaceX’s decision to publish this relatively unique video is a hint of more to come in 2019.
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SpaceX starts offering Starship services for Mars, and it already has its first customer
SpaceX has started offering Starship services to Mars, and it has its first customer already.

SpaceX is yet to master its Starship spacecraft, but the company is already planning several steps ahead. As per recent updates from company leadership, SpaceX has started offering Starship services to Mars, and it has its first customer already.
Starship Updates
SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell recently posted an update about SpaceX’s Starship program on social media platform X. As per the executive, the private space company is now “offering Startup services to the red planet.” Shotwell also noted that SpaceX is working with the Italian Space Agency on an agreement.
Italian Space Agency President Teodoro Valente shared his excitement for the project in a post on X. As per Valente, the payloads in the mission would be gathering scientific data from Mars.
“Italy is going to Mars! @ASI_Spazio and @SpaceX have signed a first-of-its-kind agreement to carry Italian experiments on the first Starship flights to Mars with customers. The payloads will gather scientific data during the missions. Italy continues to lead in space exploration!” Valente wrote in his post.
Next Starship Flight
SpaceX is currently making preparations for the launch of Starship Flight 10, which is expected to be held sometime this August, as per previous comments from CEO Elon Musk. At the end of July, SpaceX fired up its Starship Upper Stage on its South Texas launch site. This ship is the second that SpaceX has earmarked for Flight 10, as noted in a Space.com report, since the first exploded on a test stand on June 18 just before a planned static fire test.
A fully-stacked Starship first took to the skies in April 2023. Unfortunately, the last three missions this year, which were launched in January, March, and May, all ended with the upper stage experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD) before its planned splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
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Elon Musk reveals SpaceX’s target for Starship’s 10th launch
Elon Musk has revealed SpaceX’s target timeline for the next Starship launch, which will be the tenth in program history.

Elon Musk has revealed SpaceX’s target timeline for the next Starship launch, which will be the tenth in program history.
Musk says SpaceX is aiming for a timeline of roughly three weeks from now, which would come about ten weeks after the previous launch.
Coincidentally, it would bring the two launches 69 days apart, and if you know anything about Elon Musk, that would be an ideal timeline between two launches.
🚨 Just wanted you to know, Starship 10’s projected test flight date, according to Grok, is August 4.
Starship’s ninth test flight took place on May 27.
August 4 is 69 days after May 27.
Do with that what you will. 🚀 https://t.co/IISpT08rIy
— TESLARATI (@Teslarati) July 16, 2025
SpaceX is coming off a test flight in which it lost both the Super Heavy Booster and the Upper Stage in the previous launch. The Super Heavy Booster was lost six minutes and sixteen seconds into the flight, while SpaceX lost communication with the Ship at 46 minutes and 48 seconds.
Musk is aiming for the tenth test flight to take place in early August, he revealed on X:
Launching again in ~3 weeks
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2025
This will be SpaceX’s fourth test flight of the Starship program in 2025, with each of the previous three flights bringing varying results.
IFT-7 in January brought SpaceX its second successful catch of the Super Heavy Booster in the chopstick arms of the launch tower. The ship was lost after exploding during its ascent over the Turks and Caicos Islands.
IFT-8 was on March 6, and SpaceX caught the booster once again, but the Upper Stage was once again lost.
The most recent flight, IFT-9, took place on May 27 and featured the first reused Super Heavy Booster. However, both the Booster and Upper Stage were lost.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hit SpaceX with a mishap investigation for Flight 9 on May 30.
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SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission targets July 31 launch amid tight ISS schedule
The flight will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting July 31 for the launch of Crew-11, the next crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The flight will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, using the Crew Dragon Endeavour and a Falcon 9 booster.
Crew Dragon Endeavour returns
Crew-11 will be the sixth flight for Endeavour, making it SpaceX’s most experienced crew vehicle to date. According to SpaceX’s director of Dragon mission management, Sarah Walker, Endeavour has already carried 18 astronauts representing eight countries since its first mission with NASA’s Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in 2020, as noted in an MSN report.
“This Dragon spacecraft has successfully flown 18 crew members representing eight countries to space already, starting with (NASA astronauts) Bob (Behnken) and Doug (Hurley) in 2020, when it returned human spaceflight capabilities to the United States for the first time since the shuttle retired in July of 2011,” Walker said.
For this mission, Endeavour will debut SpaceX’s upgraded drogue 3.1 parachutes, designed to further enhance reentry safety. The parachutes are part of SpaceX’s ongoing improvements to its human-rated spacecraft, and Crew-11 will serve as their first operational test.
The Falcon 9 booster supporting this launch is core B1094, which has launched in two previous Starlink missions, as well as the private Ax-4 mission on June 25, as noted in a Space.com report.
The four-members of Crew-11 are NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, as well as Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov.
Tight launch timing
Crew-11 is slated to arrive at the ISS just as NASA coordinates a sequence of missions, including the departure of Crew-10 and the arrival of SpaceX’s CRS-33 mission. NASA’s Bill Spetch emphasized the need for careful planning amid limited launch resources, noting the importance of maintaining station altitude and resupply cadence.
“Providing multiple methods for us to maintain the station altitude is critically important as we continue to operate and get the most use out of our limited launch resources that we do have. We’re really looking forward to demonstrating that capability with (CRS-33) showing up after we get through the Crew-11 and Crew-10 handover,” Spetch stated.
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