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.
"Falcon 1"
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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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SpaceX launched 140 commercial payloads to Sun-synchronous orbit on its sixth rideshare mission of the…
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SpaceX’s recent launch involved another successful landing of its Falcon 9 booster, but this time…
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BREAKINGSpace
LZ-1 receives its final Falcon landing as SpaceX hand over the landing pad
by Ryan CatonAfter years of delivering iconic views of Falcon boosters performing Return to Launch Site (RTLS)…
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Blue OriginCommercialOtherSpaceX
Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 launches three missions; New Shepard completes NS-31
by Aaron McCreaDuring this active week of launches, SpaceX launched Falcon 9 three times, and New Shepard…
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ChineseCommercialInternationalOther
Launch Roundup: Electron, Falcon 9, and Ceres-1 launches flying this week
The busy launch manifests of recent weeks are continuing, with Falcon 9, Electron, and Chinese…
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CommercialISSNorthrop GrummanOtherSpaceX
Science and supplies fly on Falcon 9, Cygnus NG-21
by Tyler GrayFor the second time in 2024, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft delivered a bounty of science…
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Launch Roundup: Starliner delayed further; 21st flight for Falcon 9 booster; New Shepard returns to crewed missions
by Martin SmithSpaceX reached another milestone when booster B1062 became the first in its fleet to fly…
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Launch Roundup: scrubs deny SpaceX its 100 Falcon launch goal; look to end the year with a 300th mission milestone
by Martin SmithThis week nearly saw two secret spaceplanes launched within days of each other. After ground…
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Falcon 9 B1077-4 launched 56 Starlink v1.5 satellites into low Earth orbit on Wednesday, March…
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CommercialSpaceXUncrewed
Falcon 9 B1051 makes final flight on Galaxy-31 & 32 mission
by Lee KanayamaAfter a delay caused by Hurricane Nicole, SpaceX launched its 52nd mission of 2022 with…
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SpaceX’s 49th Falcon 9 flight of 2022 has lifted off from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space…
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The Eutelsat Hotbird-13F geostationary communications satellite launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 out of Cape…
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SpaceX has launched another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit on their Starlink Group 3-4…
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Germany’s SARah-1 military radar Earth observation satellite launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from…
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OtherSpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX flies historic 10th mission of a Falcon 9 as Starlink constellation expands
SpaceX conducted the historic 10th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket booster on the Starlink…
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The Starlink constellation received another 60 satellites, as Falcon 9 B1060-6 launched on Falcon 9’s…