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SpaceX Starship reaches orbit for first time

Rank
Ran: 40h
Updated: 6d ago
Final
Outlets: 138
Regions: 5
Countries: 69
Languages: 32

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Interfax, 27 Sept, 21:49 UTC.
Second country: Saudi Arabia, with Arab News.
Second region: Middle East, with Arab News.
Fastest hour: +28 outlets from 28 Sept, 13:13 UTC.
Last article: 138 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 69 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

19%22%48%

Africa 5 outlets · 3 countries · 3%
Americas 26 outlets · 12 countries · 19%
Asia-Pacific 30 outlets · 20 countries · 22%
Europe 66 outlets · 26 countries · 48%
Middle East 10 outlets · 7 countries · 7%
International 1 outlet · 1%

First movers

Interfax 27 Sept, 21:49 UTC
Arab News +3h 55m
Gulf News +4h 49m
G1 +5h 11m
Infobae +7h 11m

Last to join

Onet 29 Sept, 11:32 UTC
Õhtuleht 29 Sept, 09:33 UTC
N1 29 Sept, 08:52 UTC
Utusan Malaysia 29 Sept, 08:18 UTC
Khaama Press 29 Sept, 07:48 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 138 outlets in 69 countries, across 5 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 138 outlets, 9 state-owned, 16 public-service, 113 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 3: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa. Americas 12: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 20: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 26: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 7: Iraq, Israel, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Interfax, 27 Sept 2026, 21:49 UTC. First seen 27 Sept 2026, 22:00 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 14:30 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Starship Flight 14 launches new era for space industry; SpaceX rocket success creates competition concerns. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

28 Sept 2026 2 102.85 124 64 124 64 3.3

29 Sept 2026 4 50.91 137 68 25 20 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 27 Sept, 22:00 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 14:30 UTC

Covered by 138 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
28 Sept 2026	2	102.85	124	64	124	64	3.3
29 Sept 2026	4	50.91	137	68	25	20	3.3 → 4.0

Covered by 138 outlets

Africa 5 outlets

Americas 26 outlets

Asia-Pacific 30 outlets

Europe 66 outlets

Middle East 10 outlets

International 1 outlet