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However, post-stage separation, the booster encountered a rapid unscheduled disassembly, while the Starship's engines fired for several minutes on its journey into space, as reported by SpaceX.

"Bobi lived to be 31 years 165 days old and spent his entire life with his loving owner Leonel Costa and his family in the Portuguese village of Conqueiros," Guinness World Records said in a news release. Prior to this, the title of the oldest dog was held by Bluey from Australia, who departed this world in 1939 at the venerable age of 29 years and five months.

A company official told ArsTechnica that it is planning for 144 launches next year.  The goal is to put many more Starlink satellites in space to support the satellite-based cell phone service, due to launch next year as a texting-only service, with voice and data reportedly coming in 2025 and beyond. 

Israel Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi said that an activity is taking place to coordinate the company 'Starlink' in Israel, so that it will be possible to operate satellite communication terminals of Space-X, which will allow connection to broadband Internet in Israel.

The tech billionaire further said that he hopes that “electricity and essential services are rapidly restored to Gaza”.

"I think it's sort of feasible within the next four years to do an uncrewed test landing there," Musk was quoted as saying Clay Mowry, the president of the International Astronautical Federation. His comments come as the Starship launch has been under the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scanner, after its first and only launch so far. 

“The final report cites multiple root causes of the April 20, 2023, mishap and 63 corrective actions SpaceX must take to prevent mishap reoccurrence,” the regulator said in a statement late on Friday.

“There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” said Musk, without mentioning the Ukrainian government. “The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation,” the X owner added.