Plane struck by suspected space debris mid flight - The ‘one in a trillion’ incident, which left pilot with cuts on his arm, would be the first collision of its kind

Next year, SpaceX is keen to move toward launching the Starship once every two weeks from its Starbase site in southern Texas, and also from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it’s completing the infrastructure to handle additional Starship missions.

On Oct. 16, United Airlines flight 1093 took off from Denver International Airport at 5:51 a.m. MDT and was headed to Los Angeles, according to FlightAware, but an unidentified object at an unusually high altitude, 36,000 feet, struck the windshield, forcing the flight to divert to Salt Lake City International Airport.

A Falcon 9 carrying 28 of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 1:39 p.m. EDT (1639 GMT). It was the record-breaking 31st mission for this Falcon 9's first stage, a booster designated 1067.

Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas.

SpaceX's Starship rocket launched its 11th test flight on Monday, Oct. 13, and successfully splashed down in the Indian Ocean more than hour later.

Starship Flight 11 will look a lot like Flight 10, if all goes according to plan. On that most recent launch, which took place on Aug. 26, Super Heavy steered itself to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about 6.5 minutes after liftoff, and Ship did that same in the Indian Ocean roughly an hour later.

Watch how Stoke Space Hopper 2 prototype conducts a vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) in Moses Lake, Washington. Credit: Stoke Space | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta

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