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TechCrunch SpaceX wants to test refueling Starships in space early next year SpaceX will attempt to transfer propellant from one orbiting Starship to another as early as next March, a technical milestone that will pave the way for an uncrewed landing demonstration of a Starship on the moon, a NASA official said this week. Much has been made of Starship's potential to transform the commercial space industry, but NASA is also hanging its hopes that the vehicle will return humans to the moon under the Artemis program. The space agency awarded the company a $4.05 billion contract for two human-rated Starship vehicles, with the upper stage (also called Starship) landing astronauts on the surface of the moon for the first time since the Apollo era.

Instagram upgrades DMs with focus on creators Instagram on Friday announced an update to DMs, its direct messages inbox, which will improve the experience for those who receive a lot of inbound messages, like creators and influencers. Now, the app is introducing tools that will allow users to sort and filter their "message requests" - meaning those messages that don't arrive in their main inbox, based on controls the user sets. The new tools will give users the ability to sort and filter these message requests by follower count, verified accounts, brands, creators, and other factors.