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What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 launch test today?
By Tariq Malik last updated
SpaceX's seventh Starship test flight will now launch no earlier than Wednesday, Jan. 15, at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT).
What's next for the 2 private landers SpaceX just launched toward the moon?
By Mike Wall published
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just launched lunar landers built by Firefly Aerospace and Tokyo-based company ispace. What's next for the two craft?
SpaceX launching Starship Flight 7 today: Watch it live
By Mike Wall published
SpaceX is set to launch the seventh test flight of its Starship megarocket today (Jan. 15) at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT), and you can watch the action live.
On this day in space! Jan. 15, 1969: The USSR launches Soyuz 5
By Hanneke Weitering last updated
On Jan. 15, 1969: The USSR launched the Soyuz 5 mission, which met and docked with Soyuz 4 a day later.
SpaceX launches 2 private lunar landers to the moon (video, photos)
By Josh Dinner published
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched lunar landers for Firefly Aerospace and the Japanese company ispace early this morning (Jan. 15).
Little house on the (moon) prairie: Artist's 'Moonhouse' set to lift off on lunar lander
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
The moon is about to gain its first tiny house. Launching on a Japanese lunar lander is the "Moonhouse," a project by Mikael Genberg 25 years in the making.
Here's what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander
By Josh Dinner published
NASA is sending a suite of science and technology demonstrations on Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the surface of the moon.
What's flying to the moon on ispace's Resilience lunar lander?
By Andrew Jones published
Tokyo-based company ispace's Resilience lunar lander will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday (Jan. 15). Here's what the spacecraft is carrying.
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