A SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy rocket thunders away from Starbase, Texas to begin the Starhip Flight 10 mission on Aug. 26, 2025. Image: SpaceX
Running two days late, SpaceX launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship rocket Tuesday, chalking up what appeared to be a remarkably successful test flight in the wake of three back-to-back failures earlier this year.
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 for its 37th Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base this year. The orbital flight features a defense satellite for Luxembourg along with nine other rideshare payloads.
An unpiloted SpaceX Dragon capsule loaded with 2.5 tons of supplies, research material and needed equipment approaches the International Space Station over western Africa. Image: Sen 4K camera
An unpiloted SpaceX cargo ship docked at the International Space Station early Monday, delivering more than 5,000 pounds of equipment and supplies including 1,500 tortillas, the crumb-free bread substitute for crews dining in weightlessness.
Several people wander the dunes surrounding Launch Pad A at Starbase, Texas, to marvel at the fully integrated Starship rocket designed to launch Starship Flight 10. Image: Stephen Clark / Ars Technica
SpaceX is preparing for its second attempt to launch the 10th test flight of a Starship rocket from southern Texas as soon as Monday evening, but first its needs to fix an issue with its liquid oxygen system at the launch site.
File photo of Starship rising from its launch pad at Starbase in South Texas. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now.
Update Aug. 24, 7:30 p.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed the launch attempt due to a ground systems issue.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin SpaceX’s 33rd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-33) mission to the International Space Station. Image: SpaceX
A Cargo Dragon spacecraft from SpaceX lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket in the early hours Sunday morning to begin a day-long journey to the International Space Station. It carried with it more than 5,000 pounds of cargo and science experiment supplies for the astronauts onboard and a new propulsion package for orbit raising maneuvers.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the launch of SpaceX’s 33rd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-33) mission. Image: SpaceX
NASA and SpaceX are preparing to embark on a unique cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Dragon spacecraft set to launch in the predawn hours of Sunday morning features a new propulsion system inside its unpressurized trunk.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks away from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to begin the USSF-36 mission with the X-37B spaceplane onboard. More than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number 1092, landed with a sonic boom at Landing Zone 2. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered off launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida shortly before midnight, carrying with it a military spaceplane known as the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle.
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 planning to launch of its latest batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday.
Firefly Aerospace launches its sixth Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on April 29, 2025. Image: Trevor Mahlmann / Firefly Aerospace
Firefly Aerospace may soon bring its Alpha rockets to the coast of Japan.
The X-37B on the runway at Vandenberg Space Force Base following its landing there on March 7, 2025. Image: U.S. Space Force.
Update Aug. 20, 12:56 p.m. EDT: Added additional information from the 45th Weather Squadron.
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX
SpaceX is set to launch its 100th Falcon 9 rocket of the year on Monday morning. The flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base will carry another batch of Starlink optimized V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit.
SpaceX’s Ship 37 performs a static fire test with all six of its Raptor engines as part of prelaunch testing ahead of the Flight 10 mission for the Starship program. Image: SpaceX
SpaceX is once again gearing up for a launch of its massive Starship rocket from southern Texas. On Friday, it announced plans for the tenth flight of the fully integrated, two-stage rocket as soon as Sunday, Aug. 24, from its headquarters in Starbase.
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 a batch of 28 of its Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit minutes before sunrise on Thursday morning.
United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket roared off the pad at Space Launch Complex 41 to begin the USSF-106 mission for the U.S. Space Force. This was the first national security launch using a Vulcan rocket and the 101st national security mission for ULA. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
United Launch Alliance fired off it’s first fully operational Vulcan rocket Tuesday, boosting two military satellites into space in the first Space Force-sanctioned flight of a new launcher that eventually will replace the company’s Atlas 5 and already-retired Deltas.
A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the launch of the USSF-106 mission. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now
More than four months after it was certified to fly national security payloads for the United States government, United Launch Alliance is on the cusp of launching just such a mission with its Vulcan rocket.
A Falcon 9 stands ready to launch 24 Kuiper satellites from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: SpaceX.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 will make another attempt Sunday to launch 24 satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet service after three earlier attempts were scrubbed.
The SpaceX Dragon Endurance splashes down in the waters of the Pacific Ocean near the coast of San Diego, California. Image: NASA
Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese flier and a Russian cosmonaut plunged back to Earth Saturday, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego to wrap up a five-month mission.
Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., Apollo 13 mission commander, reads a newspaper account of the safe recovery of the problem plagued mission. Lovell is on board the USS Iwo Jima, prime recovery ship for Apollo 13, which was on a course headed for Pago Pago. From Pago Pago the astronauts flew to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, where they were presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard M. Nixon. Other Apollo 13 crew members were astronauts John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot, and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot. Image: NASA
James ‘Jim’ Lovell, one of the last seven surviving Apollo astronauts died on Thursday, Aug. 7, at the age of 97. A veteran of four spaceflights at the dawn of America’s human spaceflight program, he flew two missions in the Gemini program and then served on the crews of Apollo 8 and the ill-fated Apollo 13.
File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX
SpaceX is gearing up for its first Falcon 9 rocket launch from the West Coast in nine days with a mission to deliver 24 optimized Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a polar, low Earth orbit.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) hoists the USSF-106 mission payload atop the Vulcan rocket in the Government Vertical Integration Facility (VIF-G) adjacent to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This will be Vulcan’s first national security mission for the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC). Image: United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance is on the cusp of a significant milestone for its Vulcan rocket. The 202-foot-tall (61 m) launch vehicle is poised to take flight on its first national security mission as soon as Tuesday, August 12.
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