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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida on Nov. 5, 2025

SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral (video)

By Josh Dinner published

SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast today (Nov. 5), adding to its huge and ever-growing satellite-internet megaconstellation.

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a triple-core rocket blasts off under a sunny, partly cloudy blue sky. smoke expands below next to an obscured launch tower, near a long white hanger with SPACEX written on the side. To the left, a bird flies away.

Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?

By Josh Dinner, Tariq Malik last updated

Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.

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The view from the second stage of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket during its Nov. 5, 2025 launch, which lofted an Earth-observing satellite for the Japanese company iQPS. The Electron's first stage is visible falling back to Earth in the distance.

Rocket Lab launches private Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

Rocket Lab launched its sixth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS this afternoon (Nov. 5) from its seaside pad in New Zealand.

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches the first 27 of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet satellites to orbit on April 28, 2025.

Watch Atlas V rocket launch huge communications satellite tonight after delay

By Mike Wall published

United Launch Alliance (ULA) plans to launch the big and powerful ViaSat-3 F2 satellite to orbit tonight (Nov. 6) after a one-day delay, and you can watch the action live.

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Amalthea, the largest of Jupiter's inner satellites, casts a shadow on the giant gas planet in this photo taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft. The moon's shadow has an elongated shape because of its position in relation to Jupiter, but also because the moon itself has an odd shape. Because Jupiter has at least 69 moons, solar eclipses like this one are more common than they are here on Earth.

On this day in space! Nov. 5, 2002: Galileo spacecraft flies by Jupiter's moon Amalthea

By Hanneke Weitering, Elizabeth Howell last updated

On Nov. 5, 2002, NASA's old Galileo spacecraft was almost out of fuel.

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An Arianespace Ariane 6 rocket launches the Sentinel-1D Earth-observation satellite from French Guiana on Nov. 4, 2025.

Europe's powerful Ariane 6 rocket launches Sentinel-1D Earth-observation satellite to orbit (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket successfully launched the Sentinel-1D Earth-observing satellite today (Nov. 4) on its fourth-ever launch.

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a large white rocket lifts off from its launch pad on a bright yellow plume from its engines.

India launches a huge military communications satellite to orbit using its most powerful rocket (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

India launched the powerful CMS-03 military communications satellite to orbit on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Bandwagon-4 rideshare mission from Florida on Nov. 2, 2025.

SpaceX launches private space station pathfinder 'Haven Demo,' 17 other satellites to orbit (video)

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX launched its 140th Falcon 9 mission of the year today (Nov. 2), sending the "Haven Demo" tech demonstrator and 17 other payloads up on the Bandwagon-4 rideshare mission.

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A tall white rocket spits smoke from below as its engines fire.

Blue Origin fires up powerful New Glenn rocket ahead of NASA Mars mission launch (video)

By Josh Dinner published

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket has successfully completed a static fire test ahead of launching NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars.

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A rocket engine flame is seen peaking through some fog, but only barely.

SpaceX launches 100th Starlink mission of 2025 (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX launched its 100th Starlink mission of the year on Friday (Oct. 31), from a foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California.

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