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SpaceX completes 450th Falcon booster landing during Friday Starlink mission

SpaceX Falcon 9 booster 1075 touches down on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love you,’ during the Starlink 11-16 mission. This marked the 450th landing of a Falcon booster to date. Image: SpaceX via broadcast

Update May 23, 7 p.m. EDT: SpaceX landed its first stage booster on the droneship.

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FAA clears SpaceX to launch its 9th Starship super heavy rocket, while Flight 8 mishap investigation continues

SpaceX conducted a long-duration, six-engine static fire test on the Starship upper stage, tail number S35, that will be used on the Starship Flight 9 mission. Image: SpaceX

A return to flight for SpaceX’s Starship program could be a just a holiday weekend away, after the Federal Aviation Administration gave the company the go ahead.

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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on Memorial Day weekend Falcon 9 flight

A group of beachgoers at Cape Canaveral look on as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies to begin the Starlink 12-22 mission on Saturday, May 24, 2025. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now

With hundreds of people looking on along the shores of Florida’s Space Coast, SpaceX launched its 45th Starlink launch of the year, which took off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

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SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to polar orbit from California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-1 mission on May 27, 2025. Image: SpaceX

Update May 27, 2:09 p.m. EDT: SpaceX confirms deployment of the 24 Starlink satellites.

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Launch preview: SpaceX to launch its Starship-Super Heavy rocket on its 9th test 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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SpaceX launches first flight-proven Super Heavy booster, loses control of Starship mid-flight

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.

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SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

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.

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Cape Canaveral Spaceport Master Plan work to ramp up in summer 2025

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.

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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch GPS III-7 mission on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

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.

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New Falcon 9 booster makes its debut on Starlink delivery mission

New Falcon 9 booster 1095 lifts off from Cape Canaveral on May 20, 2025, on the Starlink 12-15 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein.
SpaceX launched a brand-new Falcon 9 booster Tuesday after an abort halted its first attempt 24 hours earlier. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, with 23 Starlink satellites aboard, came at 11:19 p.m. EDT (03:19 UTC).

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SpaceX scrubs Monday night Falcon 9 launch minutes before liftoff

SpaceX froze the countdown of its Falcon 9 about 2.5 minutes ahead of the planned launch of the Starlink 12-15 mission on Monday, May 19, 2025. A reason for the abort wasn’t given before SpaceX ended its broadcast. Image: SpaceX via livestream

Update May 20, 12:14 a.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed its planned launch.

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Department of the Air Force issues draft documents for new SpaceX launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 15-3 mission. Image: SpaceX

SpaceX is moving ahead with expansion plans at Vandenberg Space Force Base that will double its West Coast launch cadence and enable Falcon Heavy rockets to fly from California.

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Live coverage: SpaceX plans morning launch of Starlink satellites from California

File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX

SpaceX is preparing to launch another batch of Starlink satellites from California after sunrise Friday morning. If all goes well on the mission, the company will have launched more than 1,000 of its broadband internet satellites this year.

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Intuitive Machines’ CEO points to issues that prevented upright touchdown during IM-2 Moon landing

Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, named Athena, is pictured on its side, lying on the Moon’s surface following touchdown on Thursday, March 6, 2025. Image: Intuitive Machines

The third attempt to land on the Moon for Houston-based Intuitive Machines is coming up in less than a year and the company said Tuesday it understands how to stick the landing on the next go around.

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SpaceX launches 475th Falcon 9 rocket to date on afternoon Starlink flight

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 6-67 mission on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now

SpaceX returned to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Wednesday afternoon with its Falcon 9 rocket. The company launched of its latest batch of Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites on the 475th Falcon 9 rocket to date.

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Axiom Mission 4 delayed due to Dragon capsule readiness

[Left] Ax-4 Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu, Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, Commander Peggy Whitson, and Mission Specialist Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski [Right] have been training to live and work aboard the space station for the past eight months in preparation for their mission, which is targeted to launch no earlier than June 8, 2025. Image: Axiom SpaceThe debut of the fifth and planned final Dragon spacecraft is going to take a bit longer. The vehicle, tail number C213, will won’t be ready to support the flight of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) to the International Space Station until next month.

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SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB

A streak shot of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as it took flight from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday, May 12, 2025. Image: SpaceX

Update May 13, 12 a.m.: SpaceX confirms successful deployment of the Starlink satellites.

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Live coverage: 28 Starlink satellites to launch on Falcon 9 booster making record breaking 28th flight

Booster 1067 rolled past the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday, May 9, 2025, on its way to pad 39A for a recording breaking 28th flight. Image: Spaceflight Now.

SpaceX is preparing to launch another 28 Starlink satellites in the midnight night hour tonight with a Falcon 9 booster making a record-breaking 28th flight.

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SpaceX launches 900th Starlink satellite of 2025 during Saturday morning flight

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 6-91 mission on Saturday, May 10, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

Update May 10, 3:04 a.m. EDT: SpaceX landed its first stage booster on its droneship.

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Rocket Lab to debut point-to-point cargo transportation capability on 2026 Air Force mission

An artist’s rendering of a Rocket Lab Neutron rocket during stage separation. Illustration: Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab is looking to demonstrate the reusability of its forthcoming Neutron rocket next year with a so-called ‘return-to-Earth’ mission no earlier than 2026.

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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg

File photo a a Falcon 9 prior to a Starlink satellite delivery mission. Image: SpaceX.

SpaceX is preparing for first Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force of the month, after previously scrubbing the flight nearly a week ago.

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