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Alright, this is KI0 AR Net Control for the Colorado Astronomy Net. Here's the rocket report for this week. This rocket report covers the period from August 26th through September 9th. Last week's launches, six total launches. Let's see, in the past week all of them, SpaceX, actually, we'll count, let's see, I got one, two, three, four, five, six, actually I got five SpaceX and one Israeli launch. So there we go, actually. There we go. Stop. Go SpaceX. Go Starship. Let's take a deeper look at last week's most successful SpaceX Starship launch, Starship test flight 10. SpaceX's August 27, 25 statement. Starship's 10th flight test lifted off on August 26, 2025 at 6.30 p.m. Central time from Starbase, Texas, taking a significant step forward in developing the world's first fully reusable launch vehicle. Every major objective was met, providing critical data to inform designs of the next generation Starship and Super Heavy. The flight's a gang of Super Heavy engineers lifting off by igniting all 33 Raptor engines and ascending over the Gulf of America. Successful ascent was followed by a hot staging maneuver with Starship's upper stage igniting its six Raptor engines to separate from Super Heavy and continue the flight to space. Following stage sub-section, the Super Heavy booster did its boost-back burn to put it on a course to a pre-planned splashdown zone. The booster descended and successfully initiated its landing burn, intentionally disabling one of its three center engines during the final phases of the burn and using a backup engine from the middle ring.