On September 6, 2026, SpaceX added another quiet milestone to what has become an almost unremarkable rhythm: a Falcon 9 rocket carried 27 Starlink satellites into orbit, its booster descended autonomously onto a drone ship in the Atlantic, and the tally of Starlink launches for the year reached 80. What was once the stuff of science fiction — reusable rockets, self-landing boosters, a private internet constellation spanning the globe — has become the operating tempo of a single company. In normalizing the extraordinary, SpaceX has redrawn the boundaries of what spaceflight can mean at industri