SpaceX is accelerating work on its next-generation Starship rocket, with recent images from its Starbase “Starfactory” in Boca Chica, Texas, showing assembly lines already turning out Block 3 vehicles. Industry observers say the company’s internal goal remains to build roughly one Starship a day—a pace that would mark a step-change in heavy-lift launch capacity once flight testing is complete. Operational progress, however, remains uneven. The 10th Starship flight test, scheduled for 24 August, was scrubbed less than an hour before liftoff after a ground-systems fault, and the company has yet to set a new date. Earlier that morning SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 cargo mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral, underscoring the reliability gap engineers are trying to close with the larger vehicle. SpaceX is also seeking permission to add Cape Canaveral, Florida, as a Starship launch site, a move that would give the program an East Coast corridor for high-energy trajectories but has drawn objections from rival launch providers worried about pad availability and safety zones. Regulatory reviews are under way even as the company presses ahead with production and flight-test preparations in Texas.