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SpaceX's Starship Flight 5 Super Heavy booster approaches its launch tower for the first-ever landing and capture at the pad after launching on a suborbital test flight from Starbase in South Texas on Oct. 13, 2024.

SpaceX's big year: The new records and feats Elon Musk's space company achieved in 2024

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX launched more than 130 missions this year and made significant progress with its new Starship vehicle, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built.

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a cylindrical spacecraft flies above earth, seen only as a sliver of light

ULA wants to upgrade Vulcan Centaur rocket into a 'space interceptor' to defend satellites

By Julian Dossett published

United Launch Alliance (ULA) says its new, powerful Vulcan Centaur upper stage rocket could play a key role in defending satellites from potential threats in space.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 21 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 23, 2024.

SpaceX launches 21 Starlink internet satellites from Florida, lands rocket at sea (video, photos)

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX launched 21 Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast early Monday morning (Dec. 23) and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea.

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A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launches a radar satellite for the Earth-observation company Synspective to orbit on Dec. 21, 2024.

Rocket Lab launches private Earth-imaging satellite to orbit on its final flight of 2024 (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

Rocket Lab launched a radar satellite for the Earth-observation company Synspective to orbit today (Dec. 21) on its final mission of the year.

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a black and white rocket launches into the night sky, the thrust from its engines casting light on the launch pad.

SpaceX launches 30 satellites on Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 30 payloads as part of the Bandwagon-2 mission launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024.

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a black and white rocket ignites its engines on the launch pad at night, just as an abort is called.

Abort! SpaceX calls off launch of 'MicroGEO' satellites at last second (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites each its engines just as an abort is called at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2024.

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A SpaceX Starship spacecraft on a test stand with the setting sun for Flight 7

SpaceX Starship launches: Flight 7 mission updates

By Tariq Malik last updated

Read the latest news about SpaceX's Starship megarocket test flights, launches, photos and more.

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A Rocket Lab Electron booster frosting over during fueling for "Owl The Way Up" mission

Rocket Lab scrubs Strix radar satellite launch for Synspective over 'sensor data'

By Tariq Malik published

A new exact launch date for the Strix satellite launch by Rocket Lab has yet to be announced.

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The emblem of the United States Space Force.

US Space Force 5 years later: What has it accomplished so far, and where does it go from here?

By Brett Tingley published

As the U.S. Space Force celebrates its fifth anniversary, the service's leadership looked back on its accomplishments so far while looking ahead to the future.

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a gold-foiled fixed-leg lander probe stands on a grey semi rocky surface beneath a black sky.

SpaceX will launch Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander to the moon in mid-January with these 10 NASA payloads

By Josh Dinner published

NASA and SpaceX are targeting mid-January for the launch of Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the lunar surface.

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