20+ hour, 29+ min ago   (324+ words) It was the 105th Falcon 9 launch of the year. SpaceX lofted three telecom satellites to orbit today (Sept. 13) on a milestone mission for the company. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 GMT),…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (286+ words) The Roman Space Telescope began its cosmic journey on Aug. 30. Then, its taxi returned to our planet. On Aug. 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket — then, after completing its job, the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (236+ words) It was the 103rd Falcon 9 launch of the year. SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Sept. 6). The spacecraft rode to low Earth orbit (LEO) atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (494+ words) Liftoff is targeted for 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) today (Sept. 5). No rocket has ever reached orbit from European soil — but that could change today. The German company Isar Aerospace plans to launch its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Space Center in northern Norway…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (375+ words) There was no landing attempt, however. Another reusable Chinese rocket has taken to the skies. Pallas-1, a launcher developed by the Beijing-based company Galactic Energy, flew for the first time ever on Monday (Aug. 31), lifting off from the Jiuquan Satellite…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (186+ words) 27 Merlin engines generate some serious thrust. Falcon Heavy sent Roman to a gravitationally stable parking spot known as Lagrange Point 2, located 1 million miles away (1.5 million kilometers) between Earth and Mars, where the gravitational pulls of the sun and Earth equal…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (260+ words) Booster 1063 is just two flights shy of SpaceX's reuse record. The Starlink missions keep on coming. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 of the company's internet satellites to orbit this morning (Sept. 2), lifting off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base at…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (443+ words) Space.com's Josh Dinner caught an amazing shot of NASA's Roman Space Telescope crossing the sun on a SpaceX rocket. But why was he at Hobby Lobby? CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Standing in the parking lot of the Titusville Hobby Lobby…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (392+ words) Liftoff of the "Owl Around the Moon" mission is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. ET on Monday (Aug. 31). Rocket Lab will launch a private Japanese radar satellite to orbit early Monday morning (Aug. 31), and you can watch the action live. An Electron vehicle…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (971+ words) Plan to wake up extra early on Sunday, Aug. 30, if you don't want to miss SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launch a new astronomy icon into space. A huge SpaceX rocket is just days away from launching NASA's next great observatory…...