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SpaceX to launch 24 more Starlink satellites from Florida tonight

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX plans to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday night (Nov. 26).

Launches & Spacecraft
illustration of a silvery metallic rotorcraft flying over orangish dunes

NASA's nuclear-powered Dragonfly helicopter will ride a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket toward Saturn moon Titan

By Mike Wall published

NASA has picked SpaceX to launch its Dragonfly astrobiology mission to the intriguing Saturn moon Titan. A Falcon Heavy will loft Dragonfly in July 2028.

Missions
water-level view of a large silver spacecraft coming down for a vertical splashdown in the ocean

Watch SpaceX Starship flight 6 splash down in amazing 'buoycam' footage (video)

By Mike Wall published

A camera set up on a buoy in the Indian Ocean caught the end of the sixth test flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket on Nov. 19.

Launches & Spacecraft
An image of a SpaceX rocket taking to the skies to launch Starlink satellites

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early Monday morning (Nov. 25).

Launches & Spacecraft
A rocket launch carves an orange arc into a dark night sky in this long-exposure photo.

SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites from California (photos)

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX launched 20 more of its Starlink internet satellites from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base early this morning (Nov. 24).

Launches & Spacecraft
a smiling older man in a blue jacket stands next to a blue flight suit inside an air and space museum

Flight suit worn on 1st all-private astronaut mission to ISS debuts on display

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

When Michael Lopez-Alegria commanded the first privately funded crewed mission to visit the International Space Station, he traded his NASA "blues" for a "Deep Space" and "Mesosphere" flight suit.

Private Spaceflight
illustration of two moon rovers and a large white spacecraft on the lunar surface

SpaceX's Starship will fly Lunar Outpost's rover to the moon

By Mike Wall published

Lunar Outpost has picked SpaceX's Starship vehicle to launch its new moon rover and land the wheeled vehicle on the moon.

Moon Rovers
closeup of a huge silver rocket flying through a blue sky

SpaceX likely to get FAA approval for 25 Starship launches in 2025

By Mike Wall published

The FAA plans to approve SpaceX's request to increase the maximum number of annual Starship launches from its South Texas site from five to 25.

Private Spaceflight

SpaceX and NASA show off how Starship will help astronauts land on the moon (images)

By Brett Tingley published

NASA and SpaceX released a new set of illustrations showing off how Starship might look as it lands astronauts on the moon during the Artemis 3 mission.

Artemis
Side by side images show a tall white rocket landed on the moon on the left, with a rover on its left on the grey surface. Earth is setting on the horizon against the black of space. On the right, a shorter lander, cylindrical, with a lifting platform lowered to the surface with a rover aboard.

NASA chooses SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver rover, astronaut base to the moon

By Josh Dinner published

NASA is planning to assign SpaceX and Blue Origin 'demonstration missions' for their Artemis Program lunar landers, with eyes to put a habitat on the moon by 2033.

Artemis
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