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The U.S. Space Force awarded seven of nine missions in its next series of high-priority national security missions to SpaceX.

NASA has requested proposals from American-led companies for two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station.

NASA has added SpaceX’s still-in-development Starship-Super Heavy launch system to the fleet of vehicles eligible to compete for a wide variety of missions.

The Falcon 9 flight rate at Cape Canaveral SFS Space Launch Complex 40 is planned to be more than doubled by SpaceX.

The NROL-57 mission was launched March 21 at 2:49 a.m. EDT, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg SFB, California.

The demonstrator consists of two 6U cubesats designed by NRO’s advanced systems and tech directorate to support an “experimental technology research mission.”

NASA scrubbed the planned March 12 launch of the SpaceX Crew-10 Dragon capsule to the ISS due a hydraulic issue with the ground system clamp arm.

While the Space Force invests billions of dollars into modernizing its sites, providers are intrigued by an alternate model: mobile launchpads at sea.

The Boeing-made autonomous and maneuverable spaceplane was launched for its seventh mission on Dec. 28, 2023, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Those payloads are collecting “all kinds of very interesting data” on Beijing’s network of space surveillance satellites, Space RCO Director Kelly Hammett said.

The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 9:24 p.m. EST March 2.

The service is investing billions to revamp its launch infrastructure as the demand for rides to space continues to balloon.

The mission for Intuitive Machines is the fourth in a series of NASA-backed technology development and flight service contracts.

A Falcon 9 Launch of the $1.6 billion mission from Cape Canaveral is currently planned for no earlier than September of 2027.

New spins on NASA-developed heat shield technologies paved the way for an era of reusable space vehicles.

The robot would be hosted as a payload aboard Momentus’ Vigoride orbital services vehicle.

The Trans Lunar Injection was executed Feb. 8, according to a Feb. 10 NASA mission update.

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Lockheed Martin is preparing to ship its newly completed Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft to Kennedy Space Center for its planned launch next month to map water deposits on the Moon.

“We are at an inflection point,” says Kelli Kedis Ogborn, vice president of Space Commerce and Entrepreneurship at the Space Foundation.

Ispace of Japan’s commercial “Resilience” lunar lander has completed its initial orbital maneuver, setting it on a course toward the Moon.

Two pioneering commercial lunar landers, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Japan's ispace's Resilience, successfully launched early Jan. 15.

Launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is planned for Jan. 15 at 1:11 a.m. EST.

The seventh and eighth O3b mPOWER satellites were launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:26 p.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Ispace says it is targeting another attempt to touch down a lunar lander on the Moon’s surface around four to five months after launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9.