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The FAA classified the May 22 Starship V3 test as a mishap on May 27, after Super Heavy Booster 19 failed its boostback burn and hard-splashed in the Gulf of America, grounding the program until SpaceX's investigation is approved.

A hydraulic pin failure on the launch tower arm forced SpaceX to scrub the first Starship V3 test flight at T-40 seconds, with a second attempt targeting 6:30 p.m. EDT on May 22.

FCC bureaus approved the transfer of 65 MHz to SpaceX for $17 billion and 50 MHz to AT&T for $23 billion on May 12, conditioning the deals on a $2.4 billion escrow account for tower-company claims.

The May 6 deal hands Anthropic all of xAI's Memphis supercomputer and unlocks immediate rate-limit increases for Claude Code, Claude Pro, Max, and the Opus API.

RAVEN, a shoebox-sized CubeSat receiver, rode SpaceX's CAS500-2 rideshare to orbit on May 3 as the first dedicated satellite of the Max Planck-led ICARUS 2.0 wildlife-tracking constellation — three years after Germany ended ISS cooperation with Russia.

Bengaluru-based GalaxEye flew Mission Drishti, a 190-kilogram OptoSAR satellite fusing radar and multispectral optics, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare from Vandenberg.

SpaceX targets April 27 to launch ViaSat-3 F3 to the Asia-Pacific, ending Falcon Heavy's longest gap and capping a constellation that lost 90% of its first satellite to an antenna failure.

SpaceX announced a $10 billion collaboration deal with AI coding tool Cursor and an option to acquire it for $60 billion, halting a $2B fundraising round that Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive, and Nvidia had been set to join.

GPS III SV10 'Hedy Lamarr' lifts off April 21, completing a 32-satellite navigation constellation with optical crosslink tech never before flown on a GPS satellite.

NASA publicly revealed its completed Roman Space Telescope on April 21 at Goddard, setting up a Falcon Heavy launch as early as this fall for a five-year survey of dark energy, exoplanets, and the galactic bulge.

Ship 39 and Booster 19 have each completed full-duration Raptor 3 engine tests at Starbase, with Flight 12 now targeting May 2026.

A new ABI Research report finds that LEO satellite broadband subscriptions reached 11.8 million at the end of 2025, with SpaceX commanding 76 percent of the market, while Amazon and Eutelsat race to scale competing constellations.