After its target launch time pushed back past midnight, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocketed into low-Earth orbit early Saturday morning amid a moderate risk of upper-level wind shear. The SpaceX Starlink 6-32 mission lifted off from Launch Complex 40 at 12:33 a.m. EST at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. That represented a 93-minute delay from […]
SpaceX is poised to break its rocket-reuse record yet again. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 23 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight (Dec. 22) during a four-hour window that opens at 11:00 p.m. EST (0400 GMT on Dec. 23). It will be the […]
SpaceX is set to send up another Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral if weather holds on Friday night with a first-stage booster flying for a record 19th time. The Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-32 mission with 23 Starlink satellites is targeting liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 during four-hour window from 11 p.m. […]
Several SpaceX launch delays have pushed a commercial moon lander’s liftoff back by a month. Intuitive Machines, which had hoped to launch its robotic IM-1 mission no earlier than Jan. 12, 2024, will now wait an extra month to launch with SpaceX. The new launch window begins no earlier than mid-February, Intuitive representatives said in […]
A month after its latest liftoff, SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket is getting ready to fly again. Starship launched Nov. 18 on its second-ever test mission, which ended in two spectacular explosions. But the company, as ever, is gearing up for the next try. “Flight 3 vehicles on the pad at Starbase for testing ahead of […]
SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will fly again before the end of the year, if all goes according to plan. SpaceX is now targeting Dec. 28 for the launch of the U.S. Space Force‘s X-37B space plane, which will fly atop a Falcon Heavy from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. You can watch the […]
SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites early Friday morning (Dec. 15), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 21 Starlink craft is scheduled to launch from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday during a roughly 3.5-hour window that opens at 12:04 a.m. EST […]