{"id":548318,"date":"2026-04-24T13:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548318\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:20:09","slug":"rocket-report-artemis-iii-rocket-getting-ready-spacex-is-now-an-ai-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548318\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Report: Artemis III rocket getting ready; SpaceX is now an AI company"},"content":{"rendered":"

But where money does that come from? \u2026 SpaceX expects more than 90 percent of that market, or $26.5 trillion, to stem from the AI sector. The vast majority of that, $22.7 trillion, could come \u200bfrom AI for businesses. The company is moving ahead with an IPO expected this summer targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion and seeking \u2060to raise about $75 billion, which would make it the largest initial public offering in history. \u201cWe believe we have identified the largest actionable total addressable market in human \u200bhistory,\u201d according to the filing.<\/p>\n

Falcon boosters have now landed 600 times. SpaceX completed its 600th Falcon booster landing during a Starlink mission Sunday, Spaceflight Now reports<\/a>. The Starlink 17-22 mission added another 25 broadband Internet satellites into the company\u2019s low Earth orbit constellation that consists of more than 10,200 spacecraft.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget the hard-working ships \u2026 SpaceX used Falcon 9 first stage booster B1097, which was flying for the seventh time. It previously launched Sentinel-6B, Twilight, and five previous batches of Starlink satellites. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1097 landed on the SpaceX drone ship, \u201cOf Course I Still Love You.\u201d It was the 191st landing on this vessel. Another droneship, \u201cJust Read the Instructions,\u201d will now be dedicated<\/a> to supporting Starship operations.<\/p>\n

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Two steps forward, one step back for New Glenn. The third flight of Blue Origin\u2019s heavy-lift New Glenn launcher began Sunday with the company\u2019s first successful reflight of an orbital-class booster, but ended with a setback for Jeff Bezos\u2019 flagship rocket, Ars reports<\/a>. After the launch, the booster settled onto the ship for a smoky but on-target touchdown less than 10 minutes after liftoff. The landing marked the end of the second flight for this booster, a stunning success for the company.<\/p>\n

Second-stage issues \u2026 But Blue Origin could not celebrate the achievement for long. Within a couple of hours, it became clear that something went wrong with the mission\u2019s remaining milestones. Blue Origin confirmed New Glenn\u2019s upper stage missed its aim and released its payload, a cellular broadband communications satellite for AST SpaceMobile, into an inaccurate orbit. The satellite later reentered Earth\u2019s atmosphere. The second stage issue will force Blue Origin to stand down New Glenn at a time when NASA needs the vehicle to ramp up operations to support the Artemis Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But where money does that come from? \u2026 SpaceX expects more than 90 percent of that market, or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-548318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}