PARIS — A SpaceX executive confirmed that the next flight of the company’s Starship rocket will carry its first orbital payloads, setting the stage for work on direct-to-device and orbital data center systems.

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He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science…
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