“Once Starship is flying reliably several times per week, it makes sense to shift super scarce SpaceX engineering and production resources to Starship to get launch rate to several times per day, which means winding down Falcon,”

Elon Musk · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-25

Musk tweeted over the weekend that it was necessary to pull resources away from the Falcon 9 to prioritize Starship.