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The same booster section from the January 2025 mission is due to set off on its 18th flight on 10 August.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

The Times, a longtime Mulholland booster, blamed “a faulty system which loads upon any man’s shoulders, no matter how broad, responsibilities that are too heavy for any man to bear.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Starship’s Super Heavy booster successfully carried out the high-thrust portion of a boost-back burn with all 33 Raptor 3 engines, before it ended the burn early, according to SpaceX.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

A previous attempt at launch was abruptly scrubbed just as the booster began to ignite, in an automatic stoppage that occurred after some engines did not start.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

I went back the second time to recover from Martin’s birth, since I’d gotten dangerously anemic, and to get the boys their booster shots.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

That is roughly comparable to what Falcon Heavy can launch when none of its boosters are recovered.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

The Falcon 9 now launches about 150 times a year with boosters that are capable of being reused dozens of times.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Giant defense contractors could benefit from DSRB-backed financing, say boosters, because government budgets often fluctuate annually, raising funding uncertainty that can increase borrowing costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The independent senator from Vermont had been one of Platner’s biggest boosters throughout his successful Democratic primary campaign in Maine.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

To boot, Onofre’s TV antenna was so tall, so elaborate, so pronged, and so replete with squiggling copper and aluminum tubing and boosters, that it looked like a DEW-line radar interceptor in Greenland.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols