Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket designed for the NG-2 mission is pictured at sunset at Launch Complex 36, the evening of Nov. 8, 2025. The rocket will carry NASA’s ESCAPADE mission along with a payload demonstration for Viasat. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight Now
Blue Origin is stepping back up to the plate to take another crack at launching its 98-meter-tall (321 ft) New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday, Nov. 12.
An artist’s rendering of a Rocket Lab Neutron rocket during stage separation. Illustration: Rocket Lab
The inaugural flight of Rocket Lab’s reusable, medium-lift Neutron rocket is now set for 2026, instead of this year. The company said more testing and qualification work was needed.
Blue Origin scrubbed a launch attempt of the NG-2 mission on Nov. 9, 2025, due to cumulus clouds in the area. Image: Spaceflight Now
Update Nov. 9, 5 p.m. EST (2200 UTC): Blue Origin scrubbed the mission and is assessing its next launch opportunity.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 551 rocket sits on the pad at Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The launch attempt on Nov. 6, 2025, was scrubbed due to a persistent issue with the booster’s liquid oxygen tank vent valve. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight Now
Update Nov. 6, 9:10 p.m. EST (0210 UTC): ULA scrubbed the launch and will target a new, yet to be announced, launch date.
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket sits on Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral at sunset. The Atlas V will launch the ViaSat-3 F2 ultra-high-capacity broadband satellite. Image: United Launch Alliance
Update Nov. 5, 11:30 p.m. EST (0430 UTC): ULA scrubbed the mission due to a valve issue.
Polaris Dawn Commander Jared Isaacman sits down with Matt Anderson, the chief growth officer for the Space Force Association, during the second annual Spacepower Conference to discuss human spaceflight. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
Update Nov. 5, 8:10 a.m. EST (1310 UTC): Added comments from Sean Duffy.
File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned liftoff of the Starlink 6-61 mission on Oct. 22, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
SpaceX is preparing to launch its first batch of Starlink satellites in November. The company has at least eight such missions planned before the Thanksgiving Day holiday.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars away from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at the beginning of the Starlink 11-23 mission on Oct. 31, 2025. Image: SpaceX
Update Oct. 31, 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 UTC): SpaceX deployed the 28 Starlink satellites.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Bandwagon-4 ride share mission to a mid-inclination orbit. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight Now
An Nvidia-backed data center demo, a testbed for Vast’s future commercial space station and artificial intelligence-powered weather satellites were among the spacecraft deployed on SpaceX’s latest Bandwagon ride share mission to low Earth orbit.
Blue Origin conducted a roughly 40-second-long static fire of its New Glenn rocket on Oct. 30, 2025. This hotfire of the seven BE-4 engines is a precursor to the launch of NASA’s EscaPADE mission. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight Now
Blue Origin lit up a pocket of Florida’s Space Coast Thursday night when it hot fired its New Glenn rocket for an engine test lasting roughly 40 seconds in duration.
Mike French (left) hosted a fireside chat with former NASA administrators Jim Bridenstine (center) and Charles Bolden (right) at the 2025 von Braun Space Exploration Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama. Image: American Astronautical Society via livestream
Two former NASA Administrators called on the space agency to rethink its plans to land astronauts on the Moon using SpaceX’s Starship, saying development of the revolutionary vehicle was taking too long and required unnecessary complexity.
A Falcon 9 stands ready for a Starlink mission at Cape Canaveral’s pad 40. File photo: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now.
SpaceX is preparing for its penultimate Falcon 9 rocket launch of October, which is set to fly from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station around lunchtime on Wednesday.
An artist’s rendering of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 lunar lander on the surface of the Moon. Graphic: Blue Origin
Blue Origin is still several years off from its currently contracted mission to bring astronauts to the Moon’s South Pole on the Artemis 5 mission. But it has a number of spacecraft in development with at least one set to fly to the lunar surface as soon as potentially later this year.
Astrobotic staff examine a propulsion tank sitting in front of Griffin-1’s structure. Image: Astrobotic
Astrobotic is now eyeing the summer of 2026 for the launch of its second mission with the goal of landing on the surface of the Moon.
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX
SpaceX will continue its rapid pace of launches Monday with the flight of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 10-21 mission on Oct. 26, 2025. Image: John Pisani / Spaceflight Now
Update Oct. 26, 1 p.m. EDT (1700 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment of its 28 Starlink satellites.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flies away from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 11-12 mission on Oct. 25, 2025. Image: SpaceX
Update Oct. 25, 11:35 a.m. EDT (1535 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the 28 Starlink satellites.
Technicians with the European Space Agency and Airbus/Airbus Netherlands are shown performing an illumination test on one of the solar array wing panels during installation on the Orion spacecraft for Artemis I inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 30, 2020. The solar arrays were extended, inspected, and then retracted, before installation on the spacecraft. Each solar array panel will generate 11 kilowatts of power and span about 63 feet. Image: NASA/Frank Michaux
Legacy names in European spaceflight and defense, Airbus, Leonardo and Thales, announced a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to combine forces in a new entity designed to rival other aerospace juggernauts in this arena, like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and SpaceX.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the sky on the SpainSat NG-2 mission for Hisdesat as seen from St. Cloud, Florida. Image: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now
Update Oct. 23, 10:25 p.m. EDT (0225 UTC): SpaceX deployed the SpainSat NG-2 satellite.
File – SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands in the vertical launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the launch of the Starlink 17-5 mission on Aug. 18, 2025. This was the ninth flight for Falcon 9 booster, tail number B1088. Image: SpaceX
SpaceX is preparing to launch its 550th Falcon 9 mission since the rocket’s debut in 2010. The launch from California will add 28 more broadband internet satellites to the company’s Starlink constellation.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 10-17 mission. This was the record-breaking 31st flight of Falcon 9 booster, 1067. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight Now
SpaceX broke another reuse record on Sunday when it launched a Falcon 9 booster for a 31st time.
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