SpaceX has had a long journey through 10 flight tests of Starship. Teams have endured explosions and failures, but also achieved triumphs through amazing reentries, catches of Boosters, and even the reuse of a Booster. After 10 flights of Starship, the Program stands on the doorstep of a new generation of vehicles and possible ship reuse in 2026.
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ChineseCommercialEuropeanInternationalSpaceX
Launch Roundup: Spectrum, Electron, and Falcon 9 fly missions
by Martin SmithThis week included three launches scheduled for Wednesday and the third Electron rocket to fly…
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SpaceX launched its second lunar mission of 2025, just over a month after flying the…
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Blue OriginCommercialOtherRussianSpaceX
Launch Roundup: Soyuz flies; New Shepard simulates lunar gravity
by Aaron McCreaThis week’s launch manifest is quite diverse, featuring the launches of four different rockets worldwide.…
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OtherScience
Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx samples, discover potentially dangerous asteroid
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955…
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SpaceX continues to press forward with preparations for Flight 8 of Starship, ranging from vehicle…
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IndianInternationalJapanSpaceX
Launch Roundup: New Shepard to simulate lunar gravity, India and Japan launch navigation satellites
by Martin SmithThis week’s schedule has a mix of orbital and suborbital missions launching from seven different…
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ArtemisCommercialInternationalOther
NASA’s CLPS program accelerates as two landers head for the Moon
As NASA focuses on returning humans to the Moon with Artemis, commercial providers are gearing…
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On May 30, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, currently exploring Gale Crater on the red planet,…
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EuropeanInternationalJapanSpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX has launched the EarthCARE climate research satellite for ESA and JAXA
The joint European-Japanese EarthCARE satellite has begun its mission to improve our understanding of Earth’s…
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Boeing/StarlinerChineseCommercialInternationalOther
Launch Roundup: Boeing Starliner delayed and China launches new rocket variant
by Martin SmithThis week was expected to see the maiden launches of two new spacecraft: Boeing’s crewed…
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Following an incident that triggered the telescope to enter safe mode, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey…
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Booster 7 – following two single-engine static fire tests on the Orbital Launch Mount (OLM)…
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CommercialSpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 on Transporter-5 Rideshare Mission
by Joseph NavinAt 18:35 UTC (2:35 p.m. EDT) on May 25, SpaceX has launched yet another Falcon…
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NASA, Boeing, and ULA teams, along with international partners, have finished the agency Flight Readiness…
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China has deployed a new Earth resources observation satellite Sunday via its Chang Zheng 4C…
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China launched an experimental satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Friday morning using…
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ArtemisNorthrop Grumman
New Artemis 1 schedule uncertainty as NASA EGS ready to continue SLS Booster stacking
by Philip SlossThe NASA Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida is…
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Following the May 29 explosive failure of the Starship SN4 prototype during a Static Fire…
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InternationalMarsUncrewed
UAE-built Mars orbiter arrives at launch site ahead of July liftoff
by Tyler GrayAn Emirati-built Mars explorer, named Al Amal (“Hope” in English) and developed by engineers at…