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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 concludes successful, 14-day mission on the Moon

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captures photo of its shadow on the Moon with the volcanic feature, Mons Latreille, visible on the top right side of the lunar surface. Image: Firefly Aerospace

The journey of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander came to an end over the weekend. The 14-day operation on the surface of the Moon was officially declared over on Sunday, March 16, when the robotic lander sent its final transmissions back to Earth.

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Fresh crew docks at space station; Starliner astronauts expected to return to Earth Tuesday

The four SpaceX Crew-10 members and the seven Expedition 72 crew members join each other for a welcoming ceremony shortly after the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the International Space Station and the hatches opened. Image: NASA

The Crew 10 Dragon capsule caught up with the International Space Station and moved in for a textbook docking early Sunday, bringing four fresh crew members to the lab and clearing the way for the Starliner astronauts to return to Earth after nearly 300 days in space.

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SpaceX sets new launchpad turnaround record with Saturday sunrise launch

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.

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NASA, SpaceX launch Crew-10 to begin flight to the International Space Station

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.

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SpaceX launches Starlink 12-21 mission following back-to-back scrubs

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.’

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SpaceX details Falcon 9 anomaly that temporarily grounded the rocket fleet

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.

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NASA, SpaceX launch SPHEREx and PUNCH missions following spacecraft-driven scrub

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.

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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

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.

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Musk: President Trump calls for fast-track return to Earth of the former Starliner astronauts

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.

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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch SpainSat New Generation 1 satellite on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center

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.

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Rocket Lab, Orora Technologies contract for “responsive launch” ahead of main 2025 wildfire season

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.”

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SpaceX completes 400th Falcon booster landing on mission featuring 27 Starlink satellites

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.

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History made: Blue Origin becomes first new space company to reach orbit on its first launch

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.

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SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

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.

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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from California

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.

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SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center

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.

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SpaceX successfully catches Super Heavy booster, loses Starship upper stage during Flight 7

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.

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Launch preview: SpaceX to launch its Starship rocket on a 7th suborbital test flight from Starbase

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.

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American, Japanese robotic landers share rocket launch to the Moon

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.

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SpaceX launches 131 spacecraft on Transporter-12 Falcon 9 rideshare mission from California

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.

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Blue Origin scrubs first New Glenn launch attempt due to “vehicle subsystem issue”

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.

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