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a triple-core rocket blasts off under a sunny, partly cloudy blue sky. smoke expands below next to an obscured launch tower, near a long white hanger with SPACEX written on the side. To the left, a bird flies away.

Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?

By Tariq Malik last updated

Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.

Launches & Spacecraft
Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle stands on the launch pad at the company's West Texas site on Jan. 28, 2025. A liftoff planned for that day was scrubbed due to weather and an avionics issue.

Blue Origin to launch New Shepard moon-gravity mission on Feb. 4 after glitch

By Mike Wall published

Blue Origin is targeting Feb. 4 for the 29th launch of its New Shepard suborbital rocket, which was postponed from Jan. 28 due to weather and technical issues.

Human Spaceflight
An Indian GLSV rocket launches the NVS-02 navigation satellite to orbit on Jan. 28, 2025.

Newly-launched Indian satellite left stranded by propulsion problem

By Andrew Jones published

An Indian navigation satellite has suffered a problem with its propulsion systems just four days after launch, preventing it from reaching its intended orbit.

Launches & Spacecraft
mars appears dusty red with white patch at the bottom.

NASA pauses work by key space science groups amid Trump executive orders

By Tariq Malik published

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.

Space Exploration
the oval office in the white house with the president at his desk and press photographers across from him with insets showing where a moon rock had once been and an urn has taken its place

Trump administration removes Apollo moon rock from White House Oval Office

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

Whether President Donald Trump still supports returning astronauts to the lunar surface remains to be seen, but one thing is for certain: the moon no longer has a place in his White House.

Apollo
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket with one preflown first-stage engine launches a satellite for the company Capella Space on Aug. 23, 2023.

Rocket Lab delays launch due to space collision concern

By Mike Wall last updated

Rocket Lab will launch five "Internet of Things" satellites for the French company Kinéis this week after a delay due to orbital traffic.

Launches & Spacecraft
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Space calendar 2025: Rocket launches, skywatching events, missions & more!

By Space.com last updated

Reference Keep up with all the rocket launches, astronomical events and mission milestones for 2025 with our space calendar.

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the blues and whites of earth can be seen in the background while a silver-and-black cylindrical rocket takes up the right side of the image

Falling space debris is a growing worry for aircraft, new research suggests

By Leonard David published

Uncontrolled space debris reentries are of growing concern for air traffic, as SpaceX's recent Starship Flight 7 showed.

Launches & Spacecraft
Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, a spacesuit-turned-satellite called SuitSat began its orbit around the Earth after it was released by the Expedition 12 crewmembers during a spacewalk on Feb. 3, 2006.

On this day in space! Feb. 2, 1967: U.S. Air Force launches Keyhole-7 spy satellite

By Hanneke Weitering last updated

On Feb. 3, 2006, astronauts at the International Space Station tossed an empty spacesuit into space all by itself … for science.

Space Shuttle
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida on Nov. 7, 2024.

SpaceX launching 21 Starlink satellites from Florida on Feb. 4

By Mike Wall published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch 21 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early Tuesday morning (Feb. 4)

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