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Artist’s illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Using a donated Hubble-class mirror originally built for a spy satellite, NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is poised for launch Sunday on a $4.3 billion mission to open a new window on the universe, taking wide-angle, ultra-sharp images that would require a half million 4K TVs to show in full.

A file photo of a stack of Starlink satellites prior to deployment from a Falcon 9 upper stage. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is preparing to launch its latest Starlink mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base early Wednesday morning. The Starlink 15-22 mission will add another 27 broadband internet satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit megaconstellation. SpaceX has flown more than 2,000 of its Starlink satellites to orbit so far this year.

File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida early Tuesday morning, using a first-stage booster making a record-breaking 37th flight. The Starlink 10-49 mission will add another 29 broadband internet satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit constellation consisting of more than 11,000 spacecraft.

A Falcon 9 rocket stands poised to launch from the Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. File Photo: SpaceX SpaceX will launch its 100th orbital mission of the year when it performs an overnight flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base shortly after midnight. The Starlink 15-20 mission will add another 29 broadband internet satellites to the company’s megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.

File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned liftoff of the Starlink 6-61 mission on Oct. 22, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now SpaceX is slated to launch its 75th batch of Starlink satellites of the year on a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida late Thursday morning.

LandSpace’s ZhuQue-3 rocket booster lands at the company’s landing pad during the second flight of the launch vehicle on Aug. 19, 2026. Image: LandSpace Chinese commercial launch company, LandSpace cemented its place in the race to rocket reusability as it landed the first stage booster of its ZhuQue-3 (ZQ-3) rocket on Wednesday morning local time. The rocket lifted off from Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Pilot Zone in the northwestern part of the country at 7:35 a.m. CST on Aug.

This image above shows the operational SGANT (right) with the dish of the failed unit partially visible near bottom center. Menon, wearing a suit with red stripes, is locked onto the station’s robot arm while Adenot, wearing an unmarked suit, floats below him.

File photo of a Falcon 9 fueled for launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX is set to send another batch of Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit with a launch Tuesday night launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for 8:45 p.m. PDT (11:45 p.m. EDT / 0345 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad at Space Launch Complex 4 East.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the launch of eight Globalstar satellites. Image: SpaceX Globalstar is getting ready to replenish its low Earth orbit satellite constellation with a Saturday night launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announces the Max Power event, an air and space expo that will take place across Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center and the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Nov. 7-8, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now NASA is potentially less than a year away from the trio of rocket launches that will encompass the Artemis 3 mission and the agency’s leader said he is “extremely confident” that the mission will happen in 2027.