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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch 27 Starlink satellites into orbit from California
A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready for launch from Vandenberg in this file photo. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket Monday from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, carrying another batch of Starlink satellites. Liftoff off of the Starlink 15-25 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 5:28 p.m. PDT (8:28 p.m. EDT / 0028 UTC). The rocket will head on a southerly trajectory along the California coast as it targets an orbit inclined 70 degrees to the Equator.
SpaceX to make another attempt to launch 21 data satellites for Space Development Agency
The Falcon 9 for the SDA’S Fourth Tranche 1 Mission during a launch attempt on Oct. 5, 2026. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX early Saturday will try again to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a batch of data satellites for the U.S. military’s Space Development Agency (SDA), five days after a last-minute abort scrubbed the first attempt. Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is scheduled for 12:39 a.m. PDT (3:39 EDT / 0739 UTC).
Falcon Heavy to fly its first mission for U.S. spy satellite agency
Falcon Heavy stands ready for the launch at pad 39A ahead of the NROL-97 mission. Image: SpaceX. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Florida Thursday night on a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, America’s spy satellite agency. Codenamed NROL-97, the mission is scheduled to blast off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 11:53 p.m. EDT (0353 UTC).
NASA Redirects Gateway HALO Hardware to Three Northrop Grumman Lunar Surface Demos
Hardware built for a lunar space station that will not fly is being redirected to the Moon's surface, and the agency has now confirmed the plan in writing. NASA said it is working with Northrop Grumman to develop three technology demonstration payloads for delivery to the lunar surface, built on power and avionics hardware originally developed for the Gateway program's Habitation and Logistics Outpost module.
Live Coverage: SpaceX makes another attempt to launch space station cargo mission
A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft, C209, is seen atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is counting down Friday for another attempt to launch a Cargo Dragon ship loaded with 6,500 pounds of science and supplies for the International Space Station after two delays earlier in the week due to bad weather.
Live Coverage: SpaceX to fly 25 Starlink satellites on its 50th Falcon 9 launch of the year
File: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the Starlink 17-31 mission on March 13, 2026. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is counting down to the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday. It will be the 50th launch of the company’s workhorse rocket this year. Liftoff of the Starlink 17-16 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 7:37 a.m. PDT (10:37 a.m. EDT / 14:37 UTC).
Live Coverage: Third flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to feature 1st reuse of booster
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on pad 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on the eve of its launch with the BlueBird 7 satellite. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now. Blue Origin plans to launch its third New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station shortly before dawn on Sunday, carrying AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 satellite into low Earth orbit. The launch of New Glenn 3, or NG-3 for short, marks a critical milestone for Blue Origin’s heavy-lift rocket.
Live Coverage: West Coast SpaceX Falcon 9 mission to launch 25 Starlink satellites
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 is counting down to the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying another 25 satellites for its Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 9:29:49 p.m. PDT (12:29:49 a.m. EDT / 04:29:49 UTC).
Falcon 9 booster to fly for 34th time on Starlink delivery mission
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 the Starlink 6-88 mission. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now SpaceX’s fleet-leading Falcon 9 booster will make a record-breaking 34th flight Monday on a mission to deploy a batch of 29 satellites for the company’s internet service.
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Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 2:10:39 a.m. PST (5:10:39 a.m. EST / 1010:39 UTC). The rocket will take southerly trajectory on departure from the launch site in central California.
Live Coverage: SpaceX to launch 25 Starlink Satellites from the West Coast
File photo: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is counting down to the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket early Sunday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying another batch of satellites for the company’s Starlink internet service. Liftoff of the Starlink 17-23 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 1:55:50 a.m. PST (4:55:50 a.m. EST / 0955:50 UTC).
Live coverage: SpaceX planning pre-dawn Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral of 29 Starlink satellites
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 is planning to launch another 29 satellites for its Starlink internet service before sunrise on Friday at Cape Canaveral. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 is scheduled for 5:20:50 a.m. EST (1020:50 UTC). Spaceflight Now will have live coverage of the launch starting about one hour prior to liftoff.
Live coverage: Falcon 9 to launch 25 Starlink satellites after weather delays
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is counting down to the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites from California, after days of delay. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 1 a.m. PST (4 a.m. EST / 0900 UTC). The company had originally planned to launch the Starlink 17-25 mission Feb.
NASA loading liquid hydrogen aboard Artemis 2 rocket in unannounced test
Base of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket where the tail service masts feed propellants into the rocket’s core stage. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now. NASA is loading liquid hydrogen aboard its Space Launch System moon rocket at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday for an unpublicized but crucial test of the repairs made to a leaky umbilical that derailed a countdown rehearsal on Feb. 2.
Live coverage: Atlas 5 makes another try to launch ViaSat-3 F2 communications satellite
United Launch Alliance is counting down to a second launch attempt for an Atlas 5 rocket carrying the ViaSat-3 F2 satellite. Liftoff from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 10:16 p.m. EST (0316 UTC) at the opening of a 44-minute launch window. Launch Director James Whelan scrubbed a launch attempt Wednesday night when a vent valve on the Atlas 5’s first stage liquid oxygen tank failed to work properly during final pre-launch checkouts.
Live Coverage: SpaceX gets ready for crucial 10th test flight of Starship
Watch live as a Super Heavy booster and Starship launch on a crucial test flight for SpaceX’s fully reusable rocket. This tenth test flight follows three consecutive failures of the Starship upper stage in-flight and an explosion on the test stand. Liftoff of the 10th fully integrated Starship from SpaceX’s Starbase facility at Boca Chica Beach, in Texas, is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. CDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT / 2330 UTC on Sunday, Aug. 24.
Live Coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 to make another attempt to launch Amazon Project Kuiper mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 will make another attempt Sunday to launch 24 satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet service after three earlier attempts were scrubbed. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida is scheduled for 8:57 a.m. EDT (1257 UTC). Sunday’s launch window closes 27 minutes later. Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.
SpaceX launches West Coast Falcon 9 rocket on Starlink 13-4 mission
Some classified satellites might have hitched a ride with 19 Starlink satellites launched by SpaceX from the company’s West Coast launch site on Thursday. Liftoff from a fog-shrouded pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California occurred at 11:32:09 a.m. PDT (2:35:09 p.m. EDT / 18:35:09 UTC). SpaceX did not provide views in its webcast from the second stage of the Falcon 9, which usually includes video of the separation of the payload fairing.
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Strapped into a new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule making its maiden flight, Whitson, test pilot Shubhanshu Shukla of India, European Space Agency astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, and Hungarian engineer Tibor Kapu roared away from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 2:31 a.m. EDT.
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The launch of a solid-fueled Japanese Epsilon rocket with nine small satellites, originally scheduled to blastoff last week, has been grounded until after the flight of a larger H-2A launcher later this month, Japan’s space agency said Friday.
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Getting off to a ground-shaking start, NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche asteroid probe roared into space atop a Falcon Heavy rocket Friday, setting off on a 2.2-billion-mile voyage to a rare, metal-rich asteroid that may hold clues about how the cores of rocky planets like Earth first formed.
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Two months after a coolant leak disabled a Soyuz crew ferry spacecraft at the International Space Station, Russia’s space agency launched of a replacement vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Thursday, and the craft docked at the station at 7:58 p.m. EST Saturday (0058 GMT Sunday). The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft launched without any people on-board, and will serve as a lifeboat and ride home for a three-man space station crew later this year.
Next Starship explodes on test stand
Update June 19, 10:51 p.m. EDT: Adding statements from SpaceX and Elon Musk. SpaceX’s next Starship vehicle was destroyed in a catastrophic explosion shortly after 11 p.m. CT (0400 UTC) Wednesday as it was being readied for a static fire test at the company’s Massey facility, near Starbase, Texas.
Live coverage: New Falcon 9 booster to make second attempt at debut on Starlink delivery mission
SpaceX will try again Tuesday to launch a brand-new Falcon 9 booster after an abort halted its first attempt. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, with 23 Starlink satellites aboard, is scheduled for 11:19 p.m. EDT (03:19 UTC). The new booster, with the serial number B1095, was lowered into the horizontal position Tuesday so engineers could work on the issue that caused the countdown clock to stop at T minus two minutes and 28 seconds on Monday.
Live Coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch 21 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center
SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in the midnight hour on Monday to add another 21 satellites to its orbiting Starlink fleet. Liftoff of the Starlink 12-2 mission from pad 39A is scheduled for 12:35 a.m. EST (0535 UTC), just five days and seven hours since the last launch from the historic launch site, a new record turnaround for SpaceX. Spaceflight Now will have live coverage of the mission starting an hour prior to launch.
Live coverage: NASA leadership provides update on the state of the Artemis program
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket stands on pad 0A at Wallops Island, Virginia, on a frigid morning hours before a planned liftoff with more than 8,000 pounds of cargo heading for the International Space Station.
Super Heavy-Starship launches on sixth test flight
With President-elect Donald Trump and newly-minted efficiency czar Elon Musk looking on, SpaceX launched the world’s most powerful rocket on its sixth test flight Tuesday, an up-and-down trip to space by a gargantuan Super Heavy-Starship to evaluate a variety of safety and performance upgrades.
ULA launches second Vulcan flight, encounters strap-on booster anomaly
United Launch Alliance fired off a next-generation Vulcan rocket Friday in the second of two “certification” test flights needed before the new launcher can be used to carry high-priority national security payloads for the U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office. One of two solid-propellant strap-on boosters provided by Northrop Grumman suffered an anomaly of some sort during the climb out of the lower atmosphere, but the Vulcan managed to continue on into orbit.
NASA bumps two astronauts from SpaceX flight to make room for Starliner crew
NASA has bumped two female astronauts. including the commander, from the next SpaceX crew rotation flight to the international space station, freeing up two seats to give the agency’s Starliner astronauts a ride home next February. Crew 9 commander Zena Cardman, a space rookie, and veteran Stephanie Wilson will remain behind when the Crew Dragon ferry ship takes off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sept.
Watch live: NASA holds briefings on Crew 9 mission as SpaceX nears return to flight
VIDEO Watch live as NASA holds briefings at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on the upcoming Crew 9 mission. A SpaceX Dragon capsule is due to ferry NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Nick Hague, and Stephanie Wilson and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov to the International Space Station in August. Meanwhile at Kennedy Space Center SpaceX is rolling out a Falcon 9 for the first launch of its workhorse rocket since an upper stage on July 11 suspended flights.
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