A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars through the skies away from Florida to deliver 23 Starlink satellites during the Starlink 12-26 mission on June 13, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
Update 12:26 p.m. EDT: SpaceX confirmed the landing of its Falcon 9 booster on its droneship.
A Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX’s West Coast launch pad carrying 26 Starlink satellites. Image: SpaceX.
SpaceX launched its latest batch of 26 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit on Thursday nightfrom Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SpaceX rolls its newest Crew Dragon spacecraft along with the rest of the Falcon 9 rocket stack out to the pad at Launch Complex 39 on June 7, 2025, ahead of the launch of Axiom Mission 4. Image: SpaceX
The forthcoming private astronaut mission to the International Space Station managed by Axiom Space is not only its fourth such flight, but it also marks the swan song for a key part of the manufacturing side of SpaceX’s business.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 12-24 mission on June 10, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
Update June 10, 11:19 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirms deployment of the Starlink satellites.
The four astronauts of Axiom Mission 4 pose together amid a dry dress rehearsal of launch day activities. Left to right: Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu, Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, Commander Peggy Whitson, Mission Specialists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski. Image: SpaceX
Update June 9, 7 p.m. EDT: Added comments from SpaceX on the readiness of the Falcon 9 rocket and the latest launch weather outlook
File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at pad 4E ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX
SpaceX is preparing to launch its 70th Falcon 9 rocket launch of the year on Sunday morning. Onboard are 26 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, which will be deployed into low Earth orbit.
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft is lifted at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Image: NASA/Kim Shiflett
One year ago today, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft docked with the International Space Station to begin its long-awaited Crew Flight Test with NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore onboard.
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 preparing to launch its first customer mission of the month on Friday night with a Falcon 9 flight heading to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
The ispace Resilience lunar lander is pictured after it was integrated into the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle adapter about a week ahead of its launch on Jan. 15, 2025. Image: SpaceX via ispace
In a horrible case of deja vu, Japan-based company ispace got to the finish line with its robotic lunar lander, but was unsuccessful in safely touching down on the Moon’s surface.
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX
SpaceX is back at the launch pad for a midweek flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Starlink 11-22 mission will the company’s 50th Starlink launch of the year.
Rocket Lab conducted a wet dress rehearsal tanking test of its Electron rocket at Pad A at its launch complex in New Zealand on May 26 ahead of the ‘Full Stream Ahead’ mission for BlackSky. Image: Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is back at the pad in support of its customer, BlackSky, and the next launch for its Gen-3 satellite constellation. Teams are looking to launch the mission, dubbed ‘Full Stream Ahead,’ from Pad A at Rocket Lab’s launch complex in Mahia, New Zealand, at 11:57 a.m. NZT on June 3 (7:57 p.m. EDT, 2357 UTC on June 2).
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket for the Starlink 12-19 mission seen on the pad at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station awaiting launch. Image: Spaceflight Now
Update June 2, 3:12 p.m. EDT: Added updated forecast information.
File: A Falcon 9 stands ready to launch the Starlink 12-5 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Image: Spaceflight Now.
SpaceX is watching an active period of solar activity as it hopes to launch 23 Starlink satellites in the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning.
Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next administrator of NASA, appears before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Update May 31, 11:40 p.m. EDT: Added comments from President Trump and Jared Isaacman.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on May 31, 2025, on the Starlink 11-18 mission. Image: SpaceX.
SpaceX closed out May with its 16th Falcon 9 launch of the month. The Saturday afternoon launch from the company’s West Coast launch pad carried 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to a low Earth orbit.
The GPS III-7 Space Vehicle 08 pictured as it was encapsulated inside a pair of SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairings. Image: SpaceX
The latest addition to the United States’ Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation is set to be launched into medium Earth orbit on Friday afternoon.
NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center, the center’s Launch Pads 39A and 39B, and the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Florida’s Atlantic coast are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above on May 27, 2024. Image: NASA
Anyone who spends even a short number of days near Florida’s Space Coast can tell that the rate of launches is ramping up dramatically year over year.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to begin the Starlink 10-32 mission on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
Update May 28, 11:04 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirmed Starlink satellite deployment.
SpaceX’s Starship upper stage, tail number S35, is shown in an uncontrolled reentry during the Starship Flight 9 mission on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. Image: SpaceX via livestream
SpaceX hit another roadblock on its quest to “make life multiplanetary.” During the ninth flight of its integrated Starship-Super Heavy rocket on Tuesday, the vehicle once again failed to complete a full flight as intended, losing its ability to control its orientation a little more than 20 minutes into the flight.
A SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy rocket stands stacked at Pad A at Starbase, Texas, ahead of the Starship Flight 9 mission. Image: SpaceX
SpaceX is gearing up for a critical flight test for its Starship program. Launch teams are preparing to send the world’s largest rocket on its ninth test flight for the fully integrated vehicle on Tuesday eventing.
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