Falcon 9

SpaceX's Ax-4 mission in collaboration with NASA and Axiom Space to the International Space Station, which was scheduled to launch on June 12, will now launch no earlier than June 19. What Happened: "Following the most-recent repair, pressure in the transfer tunnel has been stable. Previously,...

Elon Musk's SpaceX delayed the Ax-4 private mission to transport 4 astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. What Happened: "Standing down from tomorrow's Falcon 9 launch of Ax-4 to the @Space_Station to allow additional time for SpaceX teams to repair...

SpaceX has launched the 9th batch of advanced reconnaissance satellites for the U.S. Government on April 12, 2025. The satellites were launched into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. What happened: On April 12, 2025, as part of the NROL-192 mission, a Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the Vandenberg...

SpaceX’s Crew-10 astronaut launch for NASA was postponed due to a hydraulics glitch. The Elon Musk-led rocket manufacturing company has rescheduled the mission for Friday, Mar. 14. What Happened: The four-person Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) by SpaceX was called off...

Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX is looking to land a Falcon 9 first stage off the coast of the Bahamas for the first time over the coming weeks. What Happened: SpaceX is targeting Feb. 17 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida. After...

Since the start of 2025, Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX has been busy completing multiple launches, starting on Jan. 3 when its Falcon 9 rocket launched the UAE-based Space42’s Thuraya 4 mission to space. The company has since launched multiple missions...

Elon Musk’s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX on Tuesday launched its Falcon 9 rocket with 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from California and subsequently landed a Falcon 9 rocket booster for the 400th time. What Happened: Following separation from the rocket’s second stage...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on Wednesday launched two lunar landers to the Moon as it gears up to land humans back on the surface of the Moon in the future. What Happened: The SpaceX rocket launched Firefly Space‘s Blue Ghost and ispace‘s Resilience lunar landers to the Moon from NASA'...

Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX has completed 134 launches in 2024, setting a new milestone. What Happened: For the entirety of 2023, SpaceX only completed 96 launches, not including two test flights of the company's Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX was initially looking...

Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX resumed launch activities over the weekend after Christmas, bringing the total number of launches so far this year to 133. What Happened: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from California on Saturday and...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk mocked Russia’s new experimental launch vehicle called the Grasshopper, saying it “looks familiar” to the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. What Happened: “Looks familiar,” Musk said in a post on social media platform X about the vehicle resembling...

Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida on Wednesday aboard its Falcon 9 rocket, marking its 100th Falcon flight of the year. What Happened: “Deployment of 23 Starlink satellites confirmed, completing our 100th...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is looking forward to launching the European Space Agency’s Hera mission to orbit on Monday aboard its Falcon 9 after the launch vehicle was grounded late last month. What Happened: “Targeting Monday, October 7 for Falcon 9's launch of the ESA Hera mission to...

SpaceX has put future Falcon 9 missions on hold after the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched the Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday didn’t land back to Earth as intended. What Happened: The two-stage rocket successfully launched the Crew-9...

Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX has launched its 90th mission for the year, the company said on Tuesday, with more than a third of its aimed launches for the year yet to take off. What Happened: “Falcon 9 launches our 90th mission of the year,” SpaceX wrote on...