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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 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.

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.

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 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.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars away from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 11-14 mission on Nov. 6, 2025. Image: SpaceX

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink broadband satellites Thursday on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, bringing the total launched in 2025 to 2,600.

A long-exposure shot of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as it soars away from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to begin the Starlink 10-51 mission on Nov. 9, 2025. Image: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now

Update Nov. 9, 3:50 a.m. EST (0850 UTC): SpaceX landed its booster on the drone ship.

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.

New Glenn lifts off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral, carrying twin Mars probes for NASA. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now.

Blue Origin launched its second heavy-lift New Glenn rocket Thursday, putting two small NASA satellites onto a long, looping course to Mars to learn more about how the sun has slowly blown away the red planet’s once thick atmosphere.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 551 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of launching Viasat’s ViaSat-3 Flight 2 satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight Now

United Launch Alliance is preparing to launch an Atlas 5 rocket Thursday night, which will carry a communications satellite for California-based communications company, Viasat.

A long-exposure shot of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasting off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Nov. 10, 2025. Image: John Pisani / Spaceflight Now

Update Nov. 10, 11:30 p.m. EST (04130UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the 29 Starlink satellites.