Amy Thompson is a Florida-based space and science journalist, who joined Space.com as a contributing writer in 2015. She's passionate about all things space and is a huge science and science-fiction geek. Star Wars is her favorite fandom, with that sassy little droid, R2D2 being her favorite. She studied science at the University of Florida, earning a degree in microbiology. Her work has also been published in Newsweek, VICE, Smithsonian, and many more. Now she chases rockets, writing about launches, commercial space, space station science, and everything in between.
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SpaceX will launch its fourth Falcon 9 rocket of the month today (May 26) to carry a new fleet of Starlink broadband satellites into space. Watch it live.

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched a missile-warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force into orbit today (May 18), marking the first launch of the year for the company.

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The United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch an Atlas V rocket into space today (May 18), and you can watch the action live online.

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United Launch Alliance scrubbed the launch of an Atlas V rocket today (May 17) due to an issue with the rocket's liquid oxygen system.

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SpaceX will launch its third Falcon 9 rocket in two weeks Saturday evening (May 15), with the launcher carrying a new fleet of Starlink broadband satellites into space.

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SpaceX will launch its third Falcon 9 rocket in two weeks Saturday evening (May 15), with the launcher carrying a new fleet of Starlink broadband satellites into space.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit early Sunday (May 9) and stuck a landing in a record 10th flight.

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SpaceX is preparing to launch one of its Falcon 9 rockets for a record 10th time to deliver 60 Starlink satellites into orbit.

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The Dragon spacecraft Resilience may have just returned to Earth, but it already has a new mission: to carry the first private astronaut flight for SpaceX.

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SpaceX launched its own version of the "fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy," the Falcon 9, on Star Wars Day (aka "May the Fourth").

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NASA's next megarocket for the moon, the Space Launch System (SLS) has arrived in Florida. The behemoth's core stage arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center via barge last Tuesday evening (April 27).

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SpaceX is getting in on the Star Wars Day action as it's planning to launch its own Falcon into space this May the Fourth.

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SpaceX's first long-duration astronaut mission is coming to an end, with a Dragon capsule undocking from the International Space Station and headed for a splashdown Sunday.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit on Wednesday evening (April 28) and nailed a landing at sea to top off a successful mission.

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SpaceX will launch a new set of Starlink internet satellites into space on Wednesday (April 28) and you can watch it all live online.

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A new U.S. spy satellite launched into space Monday afternoon (April 26) on the mightiest rocket built by the United Launch Alliance.

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A Falcon 9 rocket topped with a Crew Dragon capsule launched from Florida this morning (April 23), kicking off SpaceX's Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station.

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SpaceX will launch a crew of four astronauts early tomorrow (April 23) on its second operational crewed flight for NASA, and you can watch the action online.

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SpaceX and NASA have delayed the Crew-2 launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station.

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The astronauts will launch on the Crew-2 mission to the orbiting lab in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft this Thursday (April 22).

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NASA has given SpaceX the official go-ahead for the launch of its next crew mission to the International Space Station.

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NASA's next crew of astronauts are ready to strap into a SpaceX Dragon capsule and blast off into space.

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SpaceX has fired up the rocket that will ferry its next crew of astronauts to the International Space Station next week.

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SpaceX recently inked a deal with NASA to move any of the company's Starlink internet satellites out of the way if they stray too close to the International Space Station or other agency spacecraft.

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A crew of four astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida Friday (April 16) in advance of SpaceX's second operational astronaut launch for NASA under its commercial crew program.
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