With last Friday’s successful launch of CRS-13, SpaceX marked its fiftieth orbital launch. The milestone comes less than twelve years after the company’s first, unsuccessful, mission lifted off in March 2006, in which time SpaceX has gone from another hopeful startup to one of the biggest players in the global launch industry.
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The fifth launch of the SpaceX Falcon 1 carrier rocket is underway, carrying the RazakSat…
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SpaceX’s Falcon 1 has been lost, just seconds after its debut launch today. Moments after…
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At a private space complex on a tiny Pacific Atoll, dot-com multi-millionaire Elon Musk will…
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CommercialScienceUncrewedVulcan
Vulcan successfully launches Peregrine lunar lander on inaugural flight
by Aaron McCreaUnited Launch Alliance (ULA) has done its part in returning the US to the Moon…
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Blue OriginChineseCommercialEuropeanInternationalSpaceX
Starship debut leading the rocket industry toward full reusability
by Adrian BeilStarship’s first orbital flight is currently planned for March. This is the first time the…
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The first fully integrated static fire test of Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket is expected…
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SpaceX launched a pair of ocean surveillance satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office on Sunday…
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At 12:12pm EST (17:12 UTC), SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket for the Starlink Group…
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Iran’s Simorgh rocket appears to have suffered another failure during a previously-unexpected launch Thursday. Iranian…
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SpaceX’s engine testing facility on 4,300 acres of land in McGregor, Texas, just south of…
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CommercialUncrewed
Firefly Aerospace’s maiden flight of Alpha launch vehicle ends in failure
by Mihir NealFirefly Aerospace suffered a failure during the first orbital flight of their small satellite launch…
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CommercialNorthrop Grumman
Pegasus XL rocket successfully launches Tactically Responsive Launch demo for Space Force
Northrop Grumman’s air-launched Pegasus XL rocket made a low-profile launch for the US Space Force…
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In December 2020, Astra launched Rocket 3.2 to space. The successor, Rocket 3.3, will make…
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The Starlink constellation received another 60 satellites, as Falcon 9 B1060-6 launched on Falcon 9’s…
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In their most active year to date, SpaceX reached several reuse milestones, further pursuing their…
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Since 2012, SpaceX has been working on a reusable rocket family, now called Starship, that…
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As SpaceX continued to roll through its 2020 launch campaign, the company launched another batch…
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SpaceX has conducted the first polar launch from Florida since 1969. On board the Falcon…
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CommercialISSSpaceX
SpaceX, Falcon 9 for Demo-2 mission conducts critical static fire test
by Ian AtkinsonSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has conducted a static fire test ahead of the Crew Dragon…