A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites its Merlin engines during a static fire test at dawn on August 25, 2024. The test follows a dry suit test on the mission’s flight day. Image: Flight Space Now The SpaceX and Polaris Dawn teams checked a couple of important boxes before getting ready to launch the historic … Read more
File: A Falcon 9 rocket is ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX Update 5:06 am EDT: SpaceX has launched the mission and landed B1081 on the drone, “Of course I still love you.” After its second flight mission in as many months with a Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX proceeded to set a new … Read more
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, Boeing’s Crew Test Commander and Pilot, respectively, inspect safety hardware aboard the International Space Station. Image: NASA NASA is at a crossroads when it comes to the conclusion of the Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test. The agency will announce its decision on whether or not to return NASA … Read more
SpaceX lost its flight head booster, tail number B1062, during its attempted landing on the drone, “A Shortfall of Gravitas.” This was the 23rd flight of the booster. Image: SpaceX Update 5:20 am EDT: SpaceX is scrubbing the Starlink 9-5 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base to allow more time to review data from the … Read more
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA Test Crew astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, seen through a window on the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor spacecraft. Image: NASA. After weeks of debate, NASA has ruled out returning two astronauts to Earth aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule because of lingering concerns about multiple helium leaks and degraded propellants, both … Read more
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Crew Dragon spacecraft are ready to launch the Polaris Dawn commercial astronaut mission from Launch Complex 39A. Liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is set for no earlier than 3:38 a.m. EDT (0738 UTC) on August 27, 2024. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Update 10:18 pm EDT: SpaceX is … Read more
A Falcon 9 rocket soars through the skies over Florida’s Space Coast during the Starlink 8-10 mission. This was SpaceX’s return to the flight mission, following a failed booster landing on Wednesday. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Update 4:04 am EDT: SpaceX has launched the mission and landed its first stage booster on its drone, “Read … Read more
A Starlink 8-6 mission strip showing the Falcon 9 rocket flying away from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on August 28, 2024. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration for the second time in less than two months, following the … Read more
Sentinel-2 in the Vega launch tower. Image: ESA-CNES-ARIANESPACE/CSG-T video optics. Leduc Update 10:52 pm EDT: Arianespace has confirmed the successful deployment of the Sentinel-2C spacecraft. The European Space Agency (ESA) has completed its transition to its Vega-C mission with the final launch of its first generation Vega. The mission, called VV24, brought an Earth imaging … Read more
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station on the Starlink 8-11 mission on September 5, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update 1:12 pm EDT: SpaceX has confirmed the deployment of all 21 Starlink satellites. SpaceX managed to find good enough weather to launch its 85th Falcon … Read more
