Launch orders: NASA gives SpaceX US$257 million contract for Falcon Heavy launch of its nuclear-powered Dragonfly helicopter drone to Titan SEOPS buys SpaceX Falcon 9 launch for dedicated rideshare mission to GEO while also signing with Axient for in-orbit delivery...
Observed by Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump, the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship combination lifted off at 2200 GMT on 19 November from Boca Chica, near Brownsville, Texas. Its primary aim was to enact a controlled splashdown in the...
Launch Orders Japan’s H3 gains launch order for Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) mission SpaceX is awarded US Space Force launch orders worth US$733.5 million for seven launches for SDA and two for NRO Firefly Alpha gets multi-launch contract for True...
SpaceX has taken a dramatic leap towards its dream of placing the first humans on Mars after the company successfully returned a 232-foot-tall (71-metre) booster to its launchpad on its first attempt. The Starship Super Heavy Test Flight 5 (IFT-5) (Ship 30 upper stage...
For the third consecutive month, SpaceX has brought launches of its Falcon 9 rocket to a temporary halt after an anomaly occurred on its latest crewed mission. What happened? Crew-9 was launched aboard a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 at 17:17 (GMT) on 28 September from Cape...
The first commercially funded spacewalk mission, Polaris Dawn, was launched at 0923 GMT on 10 September by a Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 rocket. The four private astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon capsule included the mission’s sponsor, billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman....