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W6RDC, back with the rocket report, closing in on it. Yes, Sunday here, 21st SpaceX plans to launch the Starfall demo mission on a Falcon 9 launch in Brooks Flick 40 Cape Canaveral. This is a suborbital launch of SpaceX's new Starfall reentry vehicle designed to autonomously transport valuable payloads back from space to Earth, including in orbit manufacturing. The Starfall capsule is a flat cylindrical shape, much like a hockey butt, but three meters in diameter and three-quarters of a mere tall or about two and a half feet. And it'll carry a thousand kilogram payloads, so like half a ton. Let's see. No, I'm sorry, that's close to...