Latest about Launches & Spacecraft
SpaceX has rolled Starship's first-stage booster to the pad ahead of the megarocket's first-ever orbital flight, which is targeted to lift off on Sept. 28.
The growing diversity and capability of China's launch sector were on display last week, as the nation launched four different rockets in a 45-hour span.
SpaceX continued assembling its Starlink broadband megaconstellation on Saturday (Sept. 19), launching 27 of the satellites from the California coast.
Rocket Lab launched a Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit tonight (Sept. 18).
SpaceX is now targeting Sept. 28 for Starship's first-ever orbital launch, which will deploy 26 Starlink satellites and last about 10 hours. The company originally aimed for Sept. 22.
SpaceX launched its second classified mission for the U.S. Space Force in less than a week tonight (Sept. 16).
A Vega C rocket launched Europe's FLEX and Copernicus-3C spacecraft toward orbit from French Guiana tonight (Sept. 14).
SpaceX lofted three of SES's O3b mPOWER communications satellites to orbit today (Sept. 13), on the 700th mission to date for the Falcon rocket family.
