Tag: SpaceX
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Launch Roundup: SpaceX to launch Crew-11 to ISS; ISRO and NASA launch new SAR satellite
With 11 launches scheduled worldwide, this week’s launch roundup is among the busiest of 2025 so far. SpaceX is expected to conduct four missions with the workhorse Falcon 9, including the crewed Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. Blue Origin’s New Shepard took six humans to suborbital space this week. Internationally, the first-ever domestically…
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SpaceX, NASA conduct static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch
SpaceX conducts a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 UTC) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. The hot fire test of the rocket is part of the prelaunch evaluations leading up to the liftoff of the Crew-11 mission to the…
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SpaceX, NASA conduct static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch
SpaceX conducts a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 UTC) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. The hot fire test of the rocket is part of the prelaunch evaluations leading up to the liftoff of the Crew-11 mission to the…
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SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites into a polar orbit
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the sky away from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-2 mission on July 27, 2025. Image: SpaceX Update July 26, 12:56 a.m.: The Falcon 9 booster landed on the droneship. SpaceX launched another 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit onboard a Falcon 9 rocket flying…
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SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites into a polar orbit
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the sky away from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-2 mission on July 27, 2025. Image: SpaceX Update July 26, 12:56 a.m.: The Falcon 9 booster landed on the droneship. SpaceX launched another 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit onboard a Falcon 9 rocket flying…
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Crew-11 astronauts, cosmonaut arrive in Florida ahead of launch to the space station
The three astronauts and cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-11 mission descend from a Gulfstream jet at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. From bottom to top: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now The next…
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Crew-11 Arrives at Kennedy Space Center Ahead of Launch
NASA’s Crew-11 mission is officially in the final stretch before liftoff, with all four astronauts arriving at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) ahead of their scheduled launch on Thursday. Touching down at the iconic 15,000-foot-long Shuttle Landing Facility, the crew is now immersed in a rigorous pre-launch schedule as they prepare for their journey to…
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Amazon says $139.5 million investment in Florida is key to ramping up launch cadence with Project Kuiper
Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot payload processing facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The site is used to prepare its Project Kuiper satellites ahead of launches on Blue Origin’s New Glenn, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and United Launch Alliances’s Vulcan and Atlas 5 rockets. Image: Amazon Amazon is hoping to get a…
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NASA probes to study how the solar wind triggers potentially dangerous ‘space weather’
NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission launches at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The TRACERS mission will study magnetic reconnection around Earth — a process in which…
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FAA caused Falcon 9 TRACERS launch scrub
The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has noted that it was responsible for the scrub of a SpaceX launch at the Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday. SpaceX was gearing up to launch TRACERS, NASA’s latest mission to study solar wind and how it impacts Earth, with liftoff set to occur at SLC-4E at Vandenberg, with…