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SpaceX’s Starfall Capsule Flies Again, Still No Manifest
SpaceX flew its Starfall capsule again on Bandwagon-5, with 32 payloads and no declared cargo. The disk-shaped vehicle can return 2,200 pounds.
Starfall flew for the second time on Tuesday morning, and SpaceX still has not said what it carried.
A Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida at 7:04 a.m. ET on the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission with 32 payloads aboard, according to Teslarati. The first stage, flying for the 19th time, landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas about nine minutes later. The Starfall capsule was scheduled to separate last, 2 hours and 48 minutes after liftoff, well after the final customer satellite came off the upper stage at roughly one hour and nine minutes. SpaceX later posted that the payload deployment sequence was complete.
That long gap in the timeline is the story. Nearly everything confirmed about Starfall comes from regulatory filings, a mission timeline and one line on a mission page, not from a payload manifest.
At liftoff, SpaceX said the vehicle “enables affordable, routine access to a microgravity environment, providing unique opportunities for on-orbit manufacturing, scientific research, and testing.” Spaceflight Now noted that the company has still not said what, if anything, is aboard this Starfall capsule.
What The Second Starfall Capsule Flight Confirmed, And What It Did Not
Confirmed: the launch, the booster recovery, the 32-payload count, and the company’s statement that deployment finished. Confirmed also, from the FAA’s May environmental assessment, is the hardware itself. It is a disk about 10.2 feet wide and 2.5 feet tall, weighing roughly 4,600 pounds, able to bring 2,200 pounds of payload back to Earth.
Confirmed further is a change in posture. When Teslarati reported on the first Starfall flight, planned for Tuesday, June 23, SpaceX had made no public announcement of the vehicle at all; nearly everything known came from FAA and FCC filings. This time Starfall is an item name on the official mission page, listed beside paying rideshare customers.
Not confirmed: where it comes down and how. A preview published in June described a Pacific Ocean recovery, with a heat shield that jettisons just before splashdown so recovery teams can retrieve capsule and shield separately. SpaceX has not said whether this flight follows the same plan.
Why SpaceX Built A Disk Instead Of A Cone
Dragon and every other operational cargo return capsule use a cone. Starfall does not. The flat disk geometry maximizes structural efficiency and payload volume relative to mass, which matters when the product being returned is not people but manufactured material: pharmaceuticals, protein crystals, semiconductors and optical fibre that cannot be made in the presence of gravity.
The FAA documents go further than the launch commentary. They describe Starfall’s long-term purpose as building a “self-sustaining commercial in-space manufacturing market,” and as a potential successor to the industrial capabilities of the International Space Station, which is due to retire in the late 2020s. Military rapid global cargo delivery is a parallel application under active discussion with the Pentagon. Starfall is designed to be mass-produced and launched on either Falcon 9 or Starship.
What The Starfall Capsule Reveals About SpaceX’s Business Model
The same rocket that carried Starfall also carried a competitor’s hardware. Varda Space Industries flew its W-Series 7 capsule on Bandwagon-5, a spacecraft about three times smaller, to test whether microgravity improves the solubility of a cancer drug called Protac. It is Varda’s ninth reentry capsule; W-8 and W-9 launched earlier this month on Transporter-18. SpaceX has been Varda’s launch provider since the company’s first Falcon 9 rideshare contract in 2021.
SpaceX controls launch access, which makes it the landlord for every competitor in orbital return. Starfall converts that position into ownership of the return service itself. Teslarati’s earlier reporting put Starfall’s specification at roughly 30 times more payload per mission than the standalone competitors SpaceX currently flies.
For operators outside the United States, including Earth-observation and communications programmes in Africa that buy Falcon 9 rideshare slots, the relevant question is contractual rather than technical. When the launch provider also sells the downmass service, it sets both the schedule and the terms. That is an assessment of published structure, not a claim about any announced pricing or policy.
The launch came hours before SpaceX posted third-quarter results after markets closed. The company reported revenue of $14.58 billion, up 161 percent year over year, with its Super Intelligence segment the largest at $7.56 billion. On the same call, chief executive Elon Musk said SpaceX and Tesla have each formed special committees of independent directors to study a possible merger at shareholder request, and that he cannot sit on them because he is a conflicted party. “Do I think it would be a good idea? Yes,” he said, while adding that treating a merger as certain “would be overstating it.”
The Starfall Capsule’s Legacy Depends On The Next Flight
Two FAA-approved demonstration flights were the plan. If Tuesday’s reentry, parachute sequence and recovery went as intended, the second follows. A successful pair would position SpaceX to offer Starfall as a commercial service, likely to pharmaceutical and materials science customers first, before scaling toward military and broader manufacturing use.
Until then, the record stays thin: a disk, a mass budget, a launch timeline, and a company that has learned it can fly hardware nobody has described. The Starfall capsule is now a public item on a public mission page. It is still not a public programme.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is SpaceX’s Starfall capsule?
It is a disk-shaped reentry capsule. The FAA’s May environmental assessment describes a vehicle about 10.2 feet wide and 2.5 feet tall, weighing roughly 4,600 pounds and able to return up to 2,200 pounds of payload from orbit. It flew for the second time on the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission.
Did SpaceX say what the Starfall capsule carried on this flight?
No. SpaceX has not said what, if anything, was aboard. The company described Starfall only in general terms, as enabling access to a microgravity environment for on-orbit manufacturing, research and testing.
Where will the Starfall capsule land?
SpaceX has not published where or how this Starfall comes down. A June preview described a Pacific Ocean recovery with the heat shield jettisoning before splashdown, but the company has not confirmed whether this flight used the same plan.
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US Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine Resumes, Zelensky Says
Zelensky says US intelligence sharing with Ukraine works again after a three-day gap. Rubio denies any pause. What is confirmed, what is disputed.
Ukraine’s president said on Tuesday that US intelligence sharing with Ukraine was functioning again, after what he described as a three-day gap in warnings about incoming Russian ballistic missiles. Speaking in Oslo after talks with Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said: “Now it works. It’s great.”
The remark, reported by The Guardian, appears to close the sharpest public rupture between Washington and Kyiv since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. It does not settle what actually happened, who ordered it, or on what terms it ended.
A Pause Denied And A Pause Described
On Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters during a visit to Uzbekistan: “There has been no pause.” He said Zelenskyy should focus on “bringing an end to this war.”
A day earlier, Zelenskyy told NBC’s Meet the Press that the flow of warnings had been “blocked for some period of time” and then “deblocked by the American side”. He said only the United States holds the intelligence needed to warn Ukraine when Russia launches ballistic missiles, and that Ukraine went without it “during ballistic attacks during three days”.
The two accounts cannot both be complete. Neither government has published an order, a notification or a technical log showing a suspension or a restoration. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, asked about the episode on the same programme, called Zelenskyy’s suggestion that Washington engineered a slowdown “very reckless” and said nobody in the administration did it, but according to Euronews he offered no alternative explanation. Elon Musk said any disruption to Starshield, the military-grade version of Starlink, would be the US government’s responsibility.
What is confirmed is narrower than either political claim. Ukraine says it lost early warning for several days. Washington denies ordering any cut. Unconfirmed is the mechanism, the authority behind it, and whether the restoration came with new conditions attached.
Ballistic Warning As A Single Point Of Failure
Ukraine relies on US intelligence, delivered through Starshield, to detect the fast-moving ballistic missiles Russia fires at its cities. Patriot interceptors are the only effective weapon against those missiles, and the Pentagon has blocked delivery of Patriots paid for by other countries, leaving Kyiv more exposed to air attack.
Rubio said interceptors were in short supply and needed elsewhere, including for US defence. “There has not been some deliberate political directive to go out and harm Ukraine,” he said.
The human cost is documented in fragments. Overnight into Monday, a Russian missile attack killed a woman and wounded several people in Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. The State Emergency Service reported damage to a metro station, a medical facility, an educational institution and a non-residential building.
On Tuesday, BBC News reported that Ukrainian officials counted at least 10 dead: four in Kyiv and the surrounding region, four in the eastern Donetsk region and two in the central city of Dnipro. The Guardian put the Tuesday toll at least nine, including three people killed when a drone struck two vehicles on the Kyiv-Odesa highway. One of those killed was the driver of a shuttle bus travelling from the capital to a military cemetery.
Differing casualty counts from the same day are routine in an active war. Both figures originate with Ukrainian authorities, not independent monitors.
What The Oslo Meeting Produced
The Tuesday talks brought together Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner by video link, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, and EU and British security officials. Witkoff did not appear at the joint press conference.
Stubb said “genuine progress” was made on proposals to achieve peace, gave no details and warned patience would be needed. A US official described the talks as “very productive and constructive”, citing “strong alignment at the working level” among the US, Ukraine and Europe on next steps. Witkoff was due in St Petersburg on Wednesday to present the proposals to Vladimir Putin, who has not commented publicly. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Kremlin would listen while ruling out “any political concessions”.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas questioned whether US negotiators had been honest brokers, noting Witkoff has held numerous meetings with Putin in Moscow and visited Kyiv once. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke of “mixed pictures and messages” from Washington. Vice-President JD Vance said Kyiv was “certainly a partner in some ways” but that “we don’t have a formal alliance as far as I know with Ukraine”.
Trump has temporarily waived sanctions on Russian diesel to push down global fuel prices before the November 3 midterm elections, and has accused Ukraine of deliberately striking Russian refineries to damage his party. He said he asked Putin to release Stephen Hubbard, an American held by Russian forces. Zelenskyy said he offered to halt long-range strikes on refineries if the US supplies Patriot interceptors, and rejected a floated Trump-Putin-Xi summit: “There can be nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.”
Why The Dispute Travels Beyond Europe
For governments outside the transatlantic bloc, the episode is a case study in the terms of a security relationship that is not a treaty. Ukraine’s early warning runs through a US-controlled satellite pipeline and a US administration that publicly describes its partner’s interests as sometimes divergent. The interruption, whatever its cause, was resolved without any published document explaining the rules.
There is also a fuel dimension. Trump’s diesel waiver was explicitly aimed at lowering global fuel prices, which feed directly into import bills for net fuel-importing economies, including across Africa. The source material does not quantify that effect, and no estimate should be assumed.
What remains missing is equally notable: no Kremlin readout, no Pentagon explanation of the Patriot block, and no independent verification of the reported Starshield speed restrictions beyond Ukrainian military reports and a bipartisan group of US senators calling for an investigation.
Prospects For Peace
The immediate test sits in St Petersburg on Wednesday, when Witkoff presents proposals that Kyiv and European capitals say Russia must now answer. Moscow has signalled it will talk and has ruled out concessions, a combination that has stalled every previous round.
The dispute over US intelligence sharing with Ukraine matters beyond the missile warnings themselves. It shows that the practical terms of American support can shift faster than any announced policy, and that a partner with no formal alliance has little leverage over the pipeline it depends on. Zelenskyy’s own framing, that Ukraine is “not losing this war, but we are losing people”, sets the stakes for whichever meeting comes next.
Frequently Asked Questions
Did the US actually pause intelligence sharing with Ukraine?
The two governments give different accounts. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said warnings were blocked for three days and then restored, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on 19 October 2026 that “there has been no pause”. Neither side has published a document confirming or denying an order, so the underlying disruption is acknowledged by Kyiv but the official characterisation is disputed.
What intelligence does the US provide to Ukraine?
According to the reporting, Ukraine relies on US intelligence delivered through Starshield, the military-grade version of Starlink, to detect the fast-moving ballistic missiles Russia fires at Ukrainian cities. Zelenskyy has said only the United States holds this specific early-warning capability.
What happened at the Oslo meeting on 20 October 2026?
Zelenskyy met US envoy Steve Witkoff, with Jared Kushner joining by video, alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, and EU and British security officials. Stubb reported “genuine progress” on peace proposals without giving details. Witkoff was then due to take the proposals to Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg.
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Kate Middleton’s Lover’s Knot Tiara at Oman State Banquet
Kate Middleton wore the Lover’s Knot tiara with a yellow Elie Saab gown at the Oman state banquet, the first Omani state visit to Britain since 1982.
Kate Middleton wore Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot tiara to the Oman state banquet at Windsor Castle on Oct. 20, 2026, pairing it with a lemon-yellow Elie Saab gown from the label’s Spring/Summer 2025 ready-to-wear collection.
The dinner closed the first night of a three-day state visit by Sultan Haitham bin Tarik of Oman. It is the first visit by an Omani head of state to the United Kingdom since Queen Elizabeth II hosted Sultan Qaboos bin Said in March 1982, Town & Country reports.
That 44-year gap is the fact that gives the evening its weight. Everything else — the headpiece, the cape gown, the 480 forks — is protocol built on top of it.
A State Visit Measured In Cutlery And Protocol
State visits are coordinated between the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Royal Household, and their stated purpose is strengthening ties between countries. The banquet is the ceremonial layer of that work, and the Palace releases the detail on the record.
St. George’s Hall held 160 guests at a 50-metre table laid with 480 knives, 480 forks and 160 spoons, according to PEOPLE. Buckingham Palace is the traditional venue but is undergoing renovation, which is why recent visits have been staged at Windsor.
The menu carried the symbolism. Following Omani tradition, an Omani Kahwa — Arabic coffee lightly spiced with cardamom and rose water — was prepared in the royal kitchens and served at the start of the evening. Three teas closed the meal: an Earl Grey iced tea, a mint iced tea in rose water, and a warm cardamom-spiced tea. Alcohol was served, but the Sultan did not drink it for the toast. The salt dishes carried a new touch this year: a light imprint of the King’s royal cypher.
At the table, the Sultan sat between King Charles and the Princess of Wales. Prince William was seated opposite, between Crown Prince Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitham Al Said and Dina Macki, an Omani chef and cookery blogger. A dragon candelabra commissioned in 1833 by King William IV formed the centrepiece, its base ringed with pomegranates picked from a tree Prince Philip planted on the castle’s East Terrace about 50 years ago. “It fruited heavily this year because of the warm summer,” a royal aide said.
Earlier in the day, Kate wore an emerald-green Alexander McQueen coatdress over a lacy black blouse for the ceremonial welcome on the East Terrace and the carriage procession — green being one of the colours on Oman’s flag, a nod the Palace did not need to explain.
Charles, in his banquet speech, said: “It is always a treasured moment to receive such dear and old friends on a special visit such as this.” He then switched to Arabic: “Welcome to a visitor of whom one never tires.”
Why the Lover’s Knot Tiara Keeps Returning To State Banquets
The piece Kate chose is a replica. Queen Mary commissioned it from the House of Garrard, modelled on a tiara owned by her grandmother, Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge. According to the Court Jeweller, Mary “sacrificed a tiara from her own jewelry collection, the Ladies of England tiara, to make it,” using pearls and diamonds her family already owned. The original Cambridge Lover’s Knot is believed to sit in an unidentified private collection.
Mary left the piece to her granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II, who wore it and then lent it to Princess Diana in 1981. It was one of only two tiaras Diana was ever photographed wearing — the other being the Spencer tiara, now held by her brother Charles Spencer. After the 1996 divorce, the Lover’s Knot tiara returned to the Queen. Kate debuted it in 2015 and has worn it repeatedly since, including the French state banquet with a red Givenchy gown, a Dutch royal visit in icy blue Alexander McQueen, and the Nigerian state banquet in March 2025 with a green Andrew Gn dress — the same evening that brought President Bola Tinubu and first lady Oluremi Tinubu to Windsor.
“Kate is wearing what I like to call her ‘old faithful,’” royal commentator Amanda Matta told Fox News Digital. “Paired with a new beautiful gown for the formal occasion, a repeat tiara keeps the entire look from overshadowing the visiting Sultan of Oman and the true hosts of the evening: King Charles and Queen Camilla.”
That is the working logic of royal dressing at a state banquet: the guest is the subject, the host is the host, and the Lover’s Knot tiara is a fixed variable that keeps the frame stable. Kate has worn five different tiaras since her 2011 wedding. Queen Camilla chose the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, which she first wore in 2023. Princess Anne wore the Meander tiara; the Duchess of Gloucester the Honeysuckle.
Where The Record Gets Fuzzy
Precision matters here, and the sourcing does not fully agree. Harper’s Bazaar dates the Garrard commission to 1913; Town & Country dates it to 1914. Both agree on the maker, the Queen Mary provenance and the sacrificed Ladies of England tiara. The defensible position is that the year is contested in the secondary record and would need the Royal Collection’s own files to settle.
The name of the visiting head of state also varies between outlets — “Haitham bin Tariq al Said” in one account, “Haitham bin Tarik” in others. That is transliteration, not a disagreement about who travelled.
Confirmed: the Sultan arrived for three days; the state banquet fell on the first night; the visit is the first of its kind in more than four decades; Charles visited Oman four times as Prince of Wales, most recently in January 2020 to offer condolences after Sultan Qaboos’s death, and received Sultan Haitham for tea and a private meeting at Windsor last July.
The Reaction And What Comes Next
For Kate, the evening is another step in a phased return. She announced in September 2024 that she had completed chemotherapy and said in January 2025 that she was in remission. She attended three state banquets in 2025 alone.
“It is a huge amount of pressure for Kate to always deliver this fashion moment at these big state events, but it’s all part of the package,” Bethan Holt, fashion director at The Telegraph, told PEOPLE.
What to watch: whether the Lover’s Knot tiara reappears at the next inbound state visit, which will again be staged at Windsor while Buckingham Palace is renovated; whether follow-on agreements emerge from the Oman talks, since the banquet is the photograph and the meetings are the substance; and whether Kate’s schedule holds at its current tempo through the next diplomatic season. The tiara will take the headlines. The three-day programme is the part that will still matter in 2032.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which tiara did Kate Middleton wear to the Oman state banquet?
She wore Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot tiara, the headpiece she has favoured since first wearing it in 2015. It was made by the House of Garrard for Queen Mary as a replica of an earlier Cambridge Lover’s Knot tiara and was later lent to Princess Diana in 1981.
Why was the Oman state visit significant?
It was the first state visit by an Omani head of state to the United Kingdom since Queen Elizabeth II hosted Sultan Qaboos bin Said in March 1982. The banquet was held at St. George’s Hall in Windsor Castle because Buckingham Palace is undergoing renovation.
Is the date the tiara was made confirmed?
No. Harper’s Bazaar reports the Garrard commission dates to 1913, while Town & Country reports 1914. The maker, the Queen Mary provenance and the use of stones from the Ladies of England tiara are consistent across sources.
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Curfew-to-Begin in France: What the Partial Curfews Mean
Curfew-to-begin in France: PM Lecornu orders partial curfews after riots. Here’s what’s confirmed, what’s not, and how to track updates.
Curfew-to-begin is the phrase French officials are using as they order partial nighttime restrictions after weekend riots. Here’s what’s actually confirmed, what’s still unclear, and how to keep track if you’re in France or following the story.
What the Curfew Order Actually Says
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said Monday he has instructed prefects — the government’s regional representatives — to impose “very limited” and “localized” curfews to prevent more rioting and looting. That’s the curfew-to-begin instruction in plain terms.
He did not name the cities. He did not specify hours. He said details would be provided later Monday, according to the Associated Press report.
Lecornu ruled out a full curfew on entire cities such as Paris. He said a state of emergency could be declared if needed, but partial curfews seemed “more appropriate” at this stage.
One city has already moved: Marseille’s prefect banned public gatherings from noon to 8 p.m. Monday, effective immediately, enforced by law enforcement. That’s a gathering ban, not a nighttime curfew, but it shows how local orders are being rolled out piece by piece.
Why the Curfew Is Happening
The trigger was weekend violence that followed protests against the cost of living and poor school conditions. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez conceded police “lost control” in some major cities, including Paris, Marseille and Lyon.
Nuñez said intelligence suggested 200,000 demonstrators. More than 500,000 showed up. He acknowledged “a lack of anticipation” and said police numbers were sometimes inadequate. He offered his resignation; President Emmanuel Macron refused it and instead tasked him with ensuring transparency about planning and intelligence failures and implementing new operational methods.
The damage is significant. Authorities estimate at least 3,000 businesses were damaged or looted. The French Federation of Commerce and Distribution put the damage at “several hundred million euros.” Nearly 2,400 people were arrested, and almost 1,000 police and gendarmes were injured. A 19th-century city hall in Limoges burned, its roof collapsing.
How to Track the Curfew-to-Begin Details
If you’re in France or following this closely, don’t wait for a national announcement. The orders come from prefects, so check your local prefecture’s website and social accounts. That’s where hours, boundaries and exemptions will appear first.
Marseille’s order came from the Bouches-du-Rhône district in the Provence region. Other departments will issue their own. The national government has not published a consolidated list.
For English-language coverage, the Guardian’s report and the Israel Hayom account both track the political fallout. Local French outlets like Le Parisien and LCI are carrying shop-owner interviews and damage estimates.
What’s Confirmed vs. What’s Not
Confirmed: Lecornu instructed prefects to impose partial, localized curfews. Marseille has a gathering ban from noon to 8 p.m. Monday. Macron refused Nuñez’s resignation and demanded a security review. At least 3,000 businesses were damaged or looted.
Not confirmed: Which cities will have curfews. What hours they’ll run. How long they’ll last. Whether a state of emergency will be declared. Features of the curfew orders beyond Marseille’s gathering ban weren’t fully confirmed at the time of writing.
That gap matters. If you’re a resident, don’t assume your city is exempt because it wasn’t named in the first round of reporting.
How This Compares to Other Curfew Rollouts
France’s partial approach contrasts with the blanket citywide curfews used in Vienna, Georgia, after an October 4 mass shooting. Vienna issued a 72-hour citywide curfew starting at 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and midnight on Friday and Saturday, with exemptions for work, medical care, emergencies and certain religious services, according to 41NBC.
Winston-Salem tried a youth curfew for under-18s from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., then let it lapse. A week after it ended, downtown business owners told ABC45 that normalcy had returned, while community groups pushed for recreation centers and safe spaces instead.
The lesson from both: curfews are blunt tools. They can calm a flashpoint, but they don’t fix the underlying complaint. In France, the underlying complaint is the cost of living, and the protests are expected to continue.
Who Should Use This Information
If you live in or are traveling to a French city, use this as a prompt to check your local prefecture daily. Don’t rely on national headlines for hours or boundaries.
If you run a business in an affected area, the practical move is to document damage now, contact your insurer, and watch for the government’s compensation procedures. Commerce Minister Serge Papin convened an emergency meeting with retailers, banks and insurers Monday morning. The FCD is pushing for faster compensation, similar to natural-disaster procedures.
If you’re just following the story, treat the curfew-to-begin announcement as a starting point, not a final answer. The details will come from prefects, city by city, and they will change.
Frequently Asked Questions
Has a curfew officially begun in France?
Partial, localized curfews have been ordered by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, but the specific cities and hours were not named at the time of the announcement. Marseille’s prefect issued a gathering ban from noon to 8 p.m. Monday, which is a related but separate measure.
Which cities will have curfews?
That hasn’t been confirmed. Lecornu said details would be provided later Monday. Prefects in each region will set the boundaries. Check your local prefecture’s website for the order covering your area.
Is a state of emergency being declared?
Not yet. Lecornu said a state of emergency could be declared if deemed necessary, but partial curfews seemed more appropriate at this stage. President Macron stopped short of drastic measures in his Sunday address.
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