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File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the launch of the NROL-57 mission. Image: SpaceX

SpaceX is preparing for lunchtime launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base Thursday afternoon.

Technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems team use a crane to lift and secure NASA’s Orion spacecraft on top of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, for the agency’s Artemis 2 mission. Image: NASA/Kim Shiflett

The four astronauts who are to fly a loop around the Moon next year on the Artemis 2 mission were supposed to board their Orion capsule on Nov. 19 for a launch day rehearsal, but a problem with the spacecraft’s hatch delayed the practice run, NASA told Spaceflight Now.

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

Jared Isaacman is set to appear before lawmakers once again for a hearing to become NASA’s next Senate-confirmed administrator.

An Arianespace Vega-C rocket lifts off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on Dec. 1, 2025, carrying South Korea’s KOMPSAT-7 satellite. Image: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique Vidéo du CSG – S. Martin

South Korea’s latest Earth observation satellite was delivered into a Sun-synchronous orbit Monday afternoon following a launch onboard a Vega-C rocket by Arianespace.

File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position during sunset at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX

Update Dec. 2, 1:40 a.m. EST (0640 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment of the 27 Starlink satellites.

A glimpse of the 140 payloads onboard SpaceX’s Transporter-15 mission. Image: SpaceX

Update Nov. 28, 5:45 p.m. EST (2345 UTC): SpaceX deployed all payloads designed to separate from the rocket.

The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 74 crew members: NASA astronaut Chris Williams, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, onboard, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingots

Astronomer-turned-medical physicist and now NASA astronaut Chris Williams joined two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz ferry ship Thursday for a Thanksgiving Day flight to the International Space Station, kicking off a planned eight-month stay in orbit.

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket lifts off from Mahia, New Zealand, to begin the ‘Follow My Speed’ mission on Nov. 20, 2025. Image: Rocket Lab

Earth observation company BlackSky revealed it was the ‘confidential customer’ whose satellite flew on a recent Rocket Lab Electron rocket. A BlackSky spokesperson confirmed to Spaceflight Now on Tuesday that its Gen-3 satellite was the payload onboard.

SpaceX scrubbed the Transporter-15 mission on Wednesday, Nov. 26, prior to loading liquid oxygen on the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage. Image: SpaceX via livestream

Update 1:15 p.m. EST (1815 UTC): SpaceX scrubbed the launch attempt and is now targeting launch on Friday, Nov. 28.

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 preparing for its third Falcon 9 launch in less than two days. The company is targeting a late afternoon flight from its workhorse pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to begin the Starlink 6-86 mission. Image: Spaceflight Now

Update Dec. 1, 3 a.m. EST (0800 UTC): SpaceX landed its booster on the droneship.

A Falcon 9 rocket rises from its Cape Canaveral launch pad, shrouded in ground fog, carrying 29 Starlink satellites to orbit on Nov. 22, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in the early hours Saturday as the company continues to expand its network of more than 9,000 satellites for the Starlink internet service.

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

In its latest shakeup to the Commercial Crew Program, NASA announced on Monday it has reduced the number of missions Boeing is required to fly to the International Space Station and changing the next flight from a crew mission to a cargo mission.

Falcon 9 booster B1100 lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on its debut mission carrying 28 Starlink satellites. Image: SpaceX.
SpaceX launched a brand new Falcon 9 booster on a mission from California to deploy another batch of satellites for the company’s Starlink internet service.

A Falcon 9 rocket rises from a fog bank on Nov.20, 2025, making the 100th launch of the year from Florida’s Space Coast. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now.

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center Thursday evening on a milestone mission marking the 100th launch from the Space Coast this year.

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, reflected in the waters of the Kennedy Space Center Turnbasin. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now.

SpaceX launched of a batch of Starlink satellites on Tuesday, its first early-evening flight since the FAA lifted restrictions on commercial launches prompted by the government shutdown.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to begin the Starlink 6-89 mission on Nov. 14, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight Now

Update Nov. 14, 11:40 p.m. EST (0440 UTC)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 6-85 mission on Nov. 15, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight Now

Update Nov. 15, 2:24 a.m. EST (0724 UTC): SpaceX landed its first stage booster.

A Falcon 9 rocket stands at pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the planned launch of the Sentinel-6B mission. Image: SpaceX.

Update: Launch occurred on time and Sentinel-6B was successfully deployed. Read launch story.

A Falcon 9 rocket launches Nov. 17, 2025, carrying the Sentinel-6B ocean monitoring satellite. Image: SpaceX.

SpaceX launched a joint NASA-European environmental research satellite early Monday, the second in an ongoing billion-dollar project to measure long-term changes in sea level, a key indicator of climate change.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket that will launch NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration Dynamics Explorers) mission along with a technology demonstration from Viasat. Image: Blue Origin

Blue Origin is stepping back up to the plate and will take another crack at launching its 98-meter-tall (321 ft) rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, Nov. 13.