Falcon Heavy

Elon Musk and his rocket manufacturing company SpaceX reminisced about the first launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket seven years ago on Thursday. The rocket carried Musk’s red Roadster vehicle as payload then. What Happened: The Falcon Heavy launched for the first time on Feb. 6, 2018, carrying...

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 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 said on Tuesday that the company completed 67 missions using its Falcon launch vehicles as of the end of the second quarter, trailing behind its self-set launch targets. What Happened: The company is looking to launch 144 times in 2024, averaging twelve times per month....

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX had its first Falcon Heavy launch this year on Tuesday, following over 50 launches of its workhorse Falcon 9 vehicle and multiple flight tests for its ambitious Starship launch vehicle. What Happened: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched the National Oceanic and...

The U.S. military’s top-secret X-37B robot spaceplane embarked on its seventh mission from Florida, this time on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket that could take it to unprecedented orbital heights. What Happened: As per Reuters, the event took place on a Thursday evening at NASA’s Kennedy...

SpaceX‘s latest launch this week involved the Falcon Heavy rocket, dubbed “scary” by its CEO Elon Musk. What Happened: The rocket delivered the ViaSat-3 Americas, Astranis’s first MicroGEO satellite, and Gravity Space's GS-1 satellite to a geostationary orbit from Florida...

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX is eyeing two launches back to back on Friday. What Happened: SpaceX expects to launch both the ViaSat-3 Americas mission and the SES O3b mPOWER mission from Florida on Friday. The 88-minute launch window for the SES mission will open at 5:12 p.m. ET and the 57-minute...