Having launched 31 orbital Falcon 9 missions and four suborbital Starship tests, 2021 was the most active year for SpaceX to date. These launches included a number of new reuse records, including flying a booster for the eleventh time, flying the same booster twice in under a month, flying a fairing half for the fifth time, and setting a turnaround record for Dragon.
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OtherUncrewed
NOAA recovers from latest GOES-17 weather satellite issue, plans to replace it next year
by Lee KanayamaThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-East/17 has suffered another…
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SpaceX has launched another next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite for the United States Space…
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CommercialSpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX launches Starlink rideshare mission as constellation deployment milestone nears
SpaceX launched its third Starlink mission in just 11 days on the v1.0 L26 flight.…
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CommercialSpaceX
SpaceX evolving fairing recovery plans, taking advantage of Octagrabber in pursuit of rapid reusability
SpaceX set a company record with 25 orbital launches in 2020. All but five of…
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A new Falcon booster has been installed on the test stand at SpaceX’s Rocket Development…
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SpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX Launches Eighth Starlink Mission, Read The Instructions With East Coast Droneship Debut
Only a handful of days after successfully returning domestic crew launch capabilities to U.S. soil…
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CommercialSpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX successfully launches sixth Starlink launch despite engine issue
by Ian AtkinsonSpaceX launched the Starlink V1.0 L5 mission from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.…
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SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket with JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 on Monday. The launch, the 77th for…
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SpaceX’s drone ship Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) has arrived in Port Canaveral, Fla. after…
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After a little under three months without a mission from Florida’s launch pads, SpaceX launched…
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After years of payload preparation, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched one of the company’s most-challenging…
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CommercialMarsSpaceX
NASA highlights payloads on next Falcon Heavy; LZ-1 cleared for normal operations
NASA has released information regarding the U.S. space agency’s payloads that will launch on the…
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SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft – on its CRS-17 resupply mission to the International Space Station –…
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ArtemisCommercialUncrewed
NASA Launch Services Program outlines the alternative launcher review for EM-1
by Philip SlossWith a mid-2020 Administration deadline for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) fast approaching, NASA tasked its Launch…
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CommercialInternationalSpaceXUncrewed
Falcon Heavy soars; SpaceX lands critical NASA double asteroid redirect launch
To say 11 April 2019 was a banner day for SpaceX would be an understatement.…
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With the all-important Demo-1 launch complete, SpaceX has quickly begun converting Pad 39A to ready…
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SpaceX took a major step towards ending the United States’ human spaceflight gap Saturday, with…
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One year ago today, Falcon Heavy launched for the first time – successfully sending Starman…
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Ariane 5 opened her 2019 campaign on Tuesday with the dual passenger launch of two…