Launches & Spacecraft

SpaceX launched its 10,000th Starlink satellite to orbit today (Oct. 19) on the record-breaking 31st flight of a Falcon 9 rocket.

On Oct. 19, 2016, the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission arrived at Mars!

SpaceX is scheduled to launch another batch of its Starlink satellites to orbit from California early Monday morning (Oct. 20), and you can watch the action live.

The U.S. Air Force has approved SpaceX's proposal to launch up to 100 rockets per year from Vandenberg Space Force Bas, which sits on California's rugged, beautiful and often cloudy central coast.

A Long March 8A rocket lofted another batch of China's Guowang internet satellites on Wednesday evening (Oct. 15). It was the 600th launch overall for a Long March vehicle.

SpaceX video from Starship's Oct. 13 launch shows the rocket's Super Heavy booster hovering over the gulf before its dive into the deep.

The Chinese company Orienspace's Gravity-1 solid rocket launched for the second time ever on Oct. 10, sending three satellites to orbit from the deck of a ship.

PLATO powered up and extended its solar panels as the exoplanet-hunting spacecraft readies for launch as soon as December.

SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink broadband satellites on Thursday morning (Oct. 16), sending them up from Florida's Space Coast.

SpaceX plans to launch 21 satellites for an advanced new U.S. military constellation this evening (Oct. 15), and you can watch the action live.