SpaceX keeps launching while Starship awaits its next attempt
SpaceX's 85th Falcon 9 launch of 2026 carried 24 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base, while teams at Boca Chica work toward…
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SpaceX juggles Crew-13 countdown and a landmark stock market debut
SpaceX is navigating two major milestones at once: a crewed Dragon flight to the International Space Station slated for August, and a highly…
Starship Flight 13: T-0 abort, safety systems perform as designed
Starship Flight 13 aborted automatically at T-0 on July 16, 2026 at Starbase, Texas. Several Raptor engines failed to start, triggering a sa…
Starship Flight 13 may close the book on suborbital testing
SpaceX's thirteenth Starship-Super Heavy flight carries an operational payload for the first time — a batch of Starlink V3 satellites — whil…
Starship Flight 13: fixes, Starlink satellites, and the next step
SpaceX is readying Starship for its thirteenth test flight as early as July 16, aiming to address issues from the previous attempt while dep…
SpaceX hits 600 reused Falcon booster flights in a record week
Between July 10 and 13, 2026, SpaceX conducted three separate Starlink missions from two launch sites, including a milestone flight marking …
Earth Observation Overtakes Telecom in Europe's Space Industry
The European space industry bounced back in 2025 after a difficult 2024, according to Eurospace's annual report. The headline finding: Earth…
Satellites in orbit are the easy part
AST SpaceMobile keeps adding BlueBird satellites to low Earth orbit in its push for space-based cellular broadband. Yet industry insiders in…
Orbital rescue and farewell flights mark a pivotal week
A robotic spacecraft is chasing down NASA's 21-year-old Swift Observatory to push it back into a safe orbit, while two storied American rock…
Atlas V flies its final payload mission, closing a two-decade run
United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket carried its last commercial payload into orbit on July 2, delivering satellites for Amazon's Project…
Atlas 5 Flies Its Last for Amazon's Kuiper Broadband Network
United Launch Alliance is set to close out Atlas 5's involvement in Amazon's Project Kuiper with a final overnight launch from Cape Canavera…
Rocket Lab bets eight billion dollars on Iridium acquisition
Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire satellite communications operator Iridium for eight billion dollars, a landmark transaction that signals th…
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