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• Current events ref

Major US Launches this Week:

• SUN am FL Falcon Heavy  Space Telescope (side boosters RTLS) 
• WED am CA Falcon9  Starlink
- WED  7:11 am NZ Electron StriX
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Updated: 2 SEP / 1000 (all times US Eastern)
Last week

Rocket PrOn:
This is probably the best Falcon Heavy booster separation footage I have ever seen pic.twitter.com/PpYpZQf1ot
— Maxarick (@Maxarick) August 31, 2026
  
🫪@SpaceX's Falcon Heavy & @NASA's Roman Space Telescope transiting the Sun during today's launch!

INCREDIBLE STUFF!!! 😍

📸@John_Winkopp for WAI pic.twitter.com/lrN3z67AK1
— What about it!? (@FelixSchlang) August 30, 2026
  
Deployment of Roman confirmed pic.twitter.com/QB1NHPmcNk
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 30, 2026
   

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See: Lindsay Clancy

Major US Launches this Week:

• TUE am FL Falcon9  Starlink booster: 37 missions  (Final Falcon9 Starlink launch from Florida)
• WED am CA Falcon9  Starlink
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Updated: 26 AUG / 0530 (all times US Eastern)
Last week

Rocket PrOn:
Full duration 33-engine static fire with the Super Heavy booster preparing for Flight 14 pic.twitter.com/0UXb7tvk7X
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 28, 2026
  
WOW! 🚀

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket passes over the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC about 15 minutes after launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Tuesday morning. pic.twitter.com/N9U3hqw1ay
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) August 25, 2026
  

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• Political ref

Major US Launches this Week:

• WED am CA Falcon9  Starlink (100th mission in 2026)
- THU am NZ Electron iQPS 
• FRI am FL Falcon9  Starlink  
• SAT am CA Falcon9  Starlink
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Updated: 22 AUG / 0340 (all times US Eastern)
Last week

Rocket PrOn:

Taiwanese rocket test straight to the "space is hard" hall of fame pic.twitter.com/HGAp0ZeWcW

— Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) (@DrChrisCombs) August 21, 2026

The Starship preparing for our fourteenth flight test completed a full-duration, 60-second static fire with all six Raptor engines pic.twitter.com/DY11p3KVxU

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 21, 2026

JUST IN: NASA reveals the impact site where a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage crashed into the Moon at 5,400 MPH, leaving behind a new crater. pic.twitter.com/q0ioxHvprW

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) August 18, 2026

Major US Launches this Week:

• TUE am FL Falcon9  Starlink   (nice fairing eject/fall sequence)
• WED am CA Falcon9  Starlink
• SAT pm FL Falcon9  Globalstar (RTLS, cool view of impinging plumes of Stg-1/Stg-2, payload deployment)
[38.5 minutes later…]
• SAT pm CA Falcon9  F-1 Classified LEO 
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Updated: 15 AUG / 2200 (all times US Eastern)
Last week

From the Hard-to-Do File:
Chinese Long March 7A Monday
(for those of you who wonder why MaxQ is noted on a trajectory)
It's hard to tell how much the video screen footage is slowed down, but here's a rough attempt at syncing two views: pic.twitter.com/oXiHZNYglK
— Scott Manley (@DJSnM) August 10, 2026
 
  
More detailed view