Launches & Spacecraft

Tokyo-based company ispace's Resilience lunar lander will attempt to touch down on the moon on Thursday (June 5). Here's what the spacecraft is carrying.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 satellites for the company's Starlink constellation from Cape Canaveral, Florida on June 3, 2025.

Rocket Lab launched a "Gen-3" Earth-observing satellite for the company BlackSky toward orbit from New Zealand today (June 2).

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with 27 Starlink internet broadband satellites from southern California on Saturday, May 31, 2025.

SpaceX must figure out what happened on Flight 9 of its Starship megarocket, during which the vehicle's second stage made an uncontrolled reentry over the Indian Ocean.

SpaceX launched an advanced GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force today (May 30), less than three months after getting the official go-ahead.

SpaceX is targeting a whopping 170 orbital liftoffs in 2025, which would shatter the record the company set just last year.

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's "quasi-moons" and then journey on to a mysterious comet.

SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast today (May 28) and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea.

China's Tianwen 2 will attempt to collect asteroid samples, return them to Earth, and then head out to explore a strange, dusty comet.