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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at sunrise to begin the Starlink 12-16 mission on March 15, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

Update March 15, 8:41 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirmed deployment of the 23 Starlink satellites.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A to begin the Crew-10 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

Update March 14, 8:30 p.m. EDT: Dragon Endurance is making its way to the space station.

A streak shot of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as it soared away from Florida’s Space Coast. The launch of the Starlink 12-21 mission was captured next to a riverboat about 47 miles away in St. Cloud, Florida. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now

Update March 12, 11 p.m. ET: B1069 landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket first stage booster, tail number B1086, lands on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ amid the Starlink 12-20 mission on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Shortly after touchdown, a fire broke out in the engine section and caused the loss of the booster. Image: SpaceX via livestream

SpaceX is preparing for the return to flight of its Falcon 9 on Monday evening following week without flying its workhorse rocket after a booster caught fire and exploded after landing. Two missions are on tap if the weather cooperates: one in California and the other in Florida.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base to begin NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions on March 11, 2025. Image: SpaceX

Update March 12, 1:52 a.m. ET: NASA confirms acquisition of signal.

File: A Falcon 9 stands ready for the Starlink 8-10 mission at Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now.

Update 1:30 a.m. EST (0630 UTC): SpaceX has delayed the launch to Tuesday.

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Image: NASA.

In a late afternoon post to X, SpaceX founder Elon Musk stirred up some confusion and consternation among the space community.

A artist’s rendering of the SpainSat New Generation 1 satellite. Graphic: Airbus Defense and Space

SpaceX is preparing to launch a secure communications satellite on behalf of Hisdesat, a Spanish communications company.

Thermal imaging sensors developed for OroraTech and Spire Global’s OTC-P1 satellites. Image: Orora Technologies

A new batch of eight fire detection satellites are getting ready to launch into low Earth orbit in what Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) described as a “responsive launch.”

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1082, touches down on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ a little more than eight minutes after liftoff. This was the 400th landing of an orbital class booster. Image: SpaceX

Update 11:44 a.m. EST (1644 UTC): SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket lifts off the pad for the first time at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Pete Carstens/MaxQ Productions for Spaceflight Now

Blue Origin entered into the history books in the predawn hours of Thursday. The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, became the first to successfully reach orbit on their first launch with a new orbital-class rocket in the new era of commercial spaceflight that dawned in the last two decades.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars through the clouds above Florida’s Space Coast during the Starlink 12-7 mission. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now

Update 5:42 p.m. EST (2242 UTC): SpaceX updated the T-0 launch time.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 11-6 mission on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. Image: SpaceX.
Update 10 a.m. EST (1500 UTC): SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to begin the Starlink 13-1 mission on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

SpaceX launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites for its internet megaconstellation shortly after midnight on Tuesday. However, there may have been additional satellites onboard as well.

A still image taken from video of what is reportedly the remnants of SpaceX’s Starship upper stage as seen from the vantage point of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Image: Alex Davenport

SpaceX’s seventh flight of its Starship rocket was a combination of great success and catastrophic loss, with a catch of its Super Heavy booster at the launch tower and the failure of the Starship upper stage as it climbed to space.

SpaceX’s fully integrated Starship rocket stands at Launch Tower 1 at the Starbased facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, ahead of the launch of the Flight 7 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is preparing to kick off the new year of suborbital flights around the world with a launch of its nearly 40-story-tall Starship rocket from southern Texas Thursday afternoon.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander pictured atop a bespoke payload canister, which encased ispace’s Resilience lunar lander prior to encapsulation inside SpaceX’s Falcon 9 payload fairings. Image: SpaceX

For the first time in lunar exploration, two robotic landers, from two different nations launched to the Moon on one rocket.

A Falcon 9 rocket roars away from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Jan. 14, 2025, on the Transporter 12 mission. Image: Space X.

SpaceX launched 131 payloads Tuesday onboard the company’s 12th smallsat rideshare mission to date.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station prior to the rocket’s inaugural flight on the NG-1 mission. Image: Blue Origin

Update 3:20 a.m. EST (0820 UTC): Blue Origin scrubbed the launch.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 12-4 mission on Jan. 13, 2025. Image: SpaceX

Update 2:37 p.m. EST (1937 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment of the Starlink satellites.

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 booster, B1067, on the Starlink 12-12 mission on Jan. 10, 2025. This was the first time an orbital class rocket launched for a 25th time and went on to land successfully as well. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now

Update 2:37 p.m. (1937 UTC): SpaceX safely landed the first stage booster on the droneship.