Launches & Spacecraft

SpaceX is targeting Sept. 22 for Starship's first-ever orbital launch, a landmark flight that will deploy 26 Starlink satellites and last about 10 hours.

SpaceX will launch its second classified mission for the U.S. Space Force in less than a week tonight (Sept. 16), and you can watch the action live.

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.

Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observation satellite to orbit for a confidential customer on Thursday night (Sept. 10), without providing a livestream or many details about the mission.

SpaceX launched the secret USSF-153 mission for the U.S. Space Force today (Sept. 10) from California's central coast.

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 6), sending them up from California's central coast.

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket made history today (Sept. 5), becoming the first vehicle ever to reach orbit from European soil.

India launched an Earth-imaging satellite toward geosynchronous orbit today (Sept. 3) — something it had not previously done successfully.

The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission will begin its drawn-out Mercury arrival phase on Sept. 3, and you can watch the action live.