This past week marked a relatively quiet period for orbital launches, but there was still plenty of movement above Earth — from a new batch of Starlink satellites joining the constellation, to supply missions coming and going from two different space stations.
Here’s your weekly rundown of what moved in orbit and what to watch for in the coming days.
In a quiet week for rocket launches worldwide, SpaceX has launched the 500th orbital flight…
SpaceX, along with Axiom Space, launched its fourth private crewed mission to the International Space…
This week, China launched a near-Earth asteroid sample return mission amongst several other missions. Meanwhile,…
This week, China has launched three taikonauts to the Tiangong space station. SpaceX’s Falcon 9…
This week has seen the worldwide launch cadence slow, with only four launches taking place.…
During this active week of launches, SpaceX launched Falcon 9 three times, and New Shepard…
Five Falcon 9 missions launched this week, including the first-ever crewed mission to a polar…
This week included three launches scheduled for Wednesday and the third Electron rocket to fly…
The busy launch manifests of recent weeks are continuing, with Falcon 9, Electron, and Chinese…
SpaceX launched its second lunar mission of 2025, just over a month after flying the…
Three Falcon 9 Starlink missions and a Rocket Lab Electron launch from New Zealand made…
SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission,…
Following an exceptionally busy December, this week started the new year with only four scheduled…
This week, Japanese commercial company Space One stood down two attempts to launch its Kairos…
Following the sixth flight of SpaceX’s Starship on Tuesday, eight additional orbital launches were planned…
When SpaceX launched Starship and Super Heavy for its first flight test in April 2023,…
While SpaceX flew Starship on its sixth integrated test flight, the company also flew three…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its…
This week’s manifest includes the delayed launches of a Falcon 9 with Galileo global positioning…
