Blue Origin’s New Glenn, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and ULA’s Vulcan rockets launch from their respective pads. Image: Blue Origin, SpaceX, United Launch Alliance
Getting newer and increasingly more capable assets in space for U.S. service members and allies is a primary goal for the U.S. Space Force. Among the challenges to bolstering America’s various on orbit capabilities though is having space on Earth to get them ready for launch.
SpaceX transports 24 Project Kuiper satellites inside its payload fairings from Amazon’s Payload Processing Facility at the Space Florida Launch and Landing Facility out to Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Amazon
Update Oct. 9, 1:20 p.m. EDT (1720 UTC): SpaceX delayed the mission until Saturday, Oct. 11.
Blue Origin transported its New Glenn first stage booster, ‘Never Tell Me the Odds,’ from its facilities at Rocket Park to Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Oct. 8, 2025. Image: John Pisani / Spaceflight Now
Blue Origin is one step closer to its second ever launch of its New Glenn rocket. On Wednesday morning, teams rolled the 189-foot-tall (57.5 m) booster from its faculties at Rocket Park near the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to begin its journey out to Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base at sunset. Image: SpaceX
Update Oct. 8, 12:25 a.m. EDT (0425 UTC): SpaceX landed the Falcon 9 booster on its drone ship.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 10-59 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight Now
Update Oct. 7, 3:08 a.m. EDT (0708 UTC): SpaceX landed its first stage booster.
A Falcon Heavy roars passed the Moon as it launches the X-37B for the U.S. military. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now.
The latest missions carrying payloads for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) were announced on Friday with a combined value of $1.142 billion. SpaceX was tasked with five missions and United Launch Alliance (ULA) received two.
File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at pad 4E ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX
SpaceX is preparing to launch its 125th Falcon 9 rocket of 2025, which will carry a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. The company’s first mission of the month will take flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday morning.
The ViaSat-3 F2 satellite in the El Segundo, California, Boeing satellite factory ahead of containerization and shipment. Image: Erik Isakson / Boeing)
The ViaSat-3 Flight 2 spacecraft, the next geostationary satellite for communications company Viasat, arrived in Florida in the early morning hours of Tuesday.
The Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. Image: NASA
A new report from the Democratic staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation argues that NASA has been “illegally” implementing President Donald Trump’s proposed budget request (PBR) and ignoring the funding levels previously approved by Congress.
(Left to right) Axiom Space Chief Astronaut Michael López-Alegría trains with the first Axiom Space project astronaut Emiliano Ventura. Image: Axiom Space
Axiom Space is gearing up to launch the first module of its commercial space station as soon as next year, but it is also refining how it will train future crews to head into low Earth orbit.
An explosion captured by security camera footage shows the results of an anomaly seen during acceptance testing of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket booster designated for the Flight 7 mission. Image: Harold’s Auto Parts
Firefly Aerospace suffered a setback on its road to resuming launches with its Alpha rocket.
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX
Update Sept. 28, 2:42 p.m. EDT (1842 UTC): SpaceX adjusted the T-0 liftoff time.
Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane (right) and its Shooting Star cargo module (left) seen inside a processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image: Sierra Space
The debut of Sierra Space’s cargo space plane Dream Chaser has delayed again and will no longer see a docking with the International Space Station. In a statement Thursday afternoon, NASA said the space agency and Sierra Space had agreed to a major modification of their space station resupply contract.
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position during sunset at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX
Update Sept. 26, 1 a.m. EDT: SpaceX deployed the 24 Starlink satellites.
United Launch Alliance launches their Atlas 5 rocket on June 25, 2025, with a batch of 27 Project Kuiper satellites for Amazon towards low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now
Roughly an hour past sunrise, an Atlas 5 551 rocket from United Launch Alliance took flight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Onboard the rocket, flying in its most powerful configuration, were the next 27 Project Kuiper satellites from Amazon.
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
Update Sept. 25, 4 a.m. EDT (0800 UTC): SpaceX landed its booster on the droneship.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 23, 2024, ahead of the planned launch of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft and two other rideshare missions. Image: John Pisani / Spaceflight Now
A trio of Sun-studying, marquee missions for both NASA and the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) is set to take off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket shortly after sunrise on Wednesday.
NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidate join together after being announced to the public on Sept. 22, 2025. From left to right, Erin Overcash, Katherine Spies, Cameron Jones, Ben Bailey, Adam Fuhrmann, Rebecca Lawler, Imelda Muller, Yuri Kubo, Anna Menon, Lauren Edgar.
With its eyes on creating a persistent human presence on the Moon and pushing closer to crewed exploration of Mars, NASA announced its newest class of astronaut candidates.
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the launch of the NROL-57 mission. Image: SpaceX
The National Reconnaissance Office in the United States is preparing to send its 11th batch of small, reconnaissance satellites into low Earth orbit Monday morning. These are believed to be Starshield satellites, a government variant of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, though the NRO hasn’t confirmed this.
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) ahead of the launch of the Starlink 12-18 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
SpaceX is preparing for a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral at dawn on Sunday.
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo ship on final approach to the International Space Station early Thursday. Image: NASA
Running a day late because of a software issue, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo ship caught up with the International Space Station early Thursday and then stood by while the lab’s robot arm latched onto a grapple fixture to wrap up a successful, if extended, rendezvous.
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