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SpaceNexus AM · Monday, September 28, 2026
Starship Reaches Orbit: SpaceX's Super Heavy Stack Attempts Its First Full Orbital Flight, reported by SpaceNexus.
Starship Reaches Orbit: SpaceX's Super Heavy Stack Attempts Its First Full Orbital Flight, reported by SpaceNexus.
9,835 job postings on the jobs board, 3,643 of the postings dated in the last seven days. Most new postings this week: The Aerospace Corporation (431), AST SpaceMobile (232), Impulse Space (198).
Jobs boardNew space-industry job postings counted in the August 2026 Hiring Index edition.
Source: SpaceNexus Hiring Index · as of 2026-08-31 · Hiring Index, August 2026
2008 (18 years ago): Falcon 1 becomes first privately developed rocket to reach orbit. On its fourth attempt, SpaceX's Falcon 1 became the first privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit, proving a startup could build an orbital-class launch vehicle.
Today in space historyToday's headlines are the publishers' own and the lead is built from our data: the AI-drafted lines were held back by our fact-check. Launches, money, hiring, the number and the history item come straight from our own data.
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