Air Force Recovers SpaceX Starfall Cargo After Point-to-Point Delivery Test
SpaceX's Starfall capsule carried Air Force survival and emergency equipment through orbit and reentry—then returned the instrumented cargo from a Pacific splashdown.
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SpaceX's Starfall capsule carried Air Force survival and emergency equipment through orbit and reentry—then returned the instrumented cargo from a Pacific splashdown.
SpaceX's CRS-35 Dragon is set to carry the ISS's final roll-out solar arrays plus artificial-retina, heart-tissue and brain-organoid research on October 13.
SpaceX launched the National Reconnaissance Office's first Falcon Heavy mission, then returned both side boosters together after the classified NROL-97 flight.
SpaceX's Crew-13 Dragon reached the International Space Station in 7 hours 55 minutes—the fastest U.S. launch-to-docking trip in station history.
SpaceX is targeting three October 1 launches from two coasts, including Crew-13 and Falcon Heavy's classified NROL-97 mission from Florida.
Crew-13 passed Flight Readiness Review after its Dragon oxidizer-leak delay. The four-person crew is now at Kennedy for a targeted October 1 launch.
SpaceX completed Falcon's 700th mission by deploying the final three spacecraft in SES's initial O3b mPOWER constellation after B1080 landed from its 29th flight.
SpaceX's next Falcon 9 mission will carry the final three O3b mPOWER satellites together, completing the launch manifest for SES's initial 13-spacecraft MEO constellation.
NASA and SpaceX have taken Crew-13 off its September target after finding an oxidizer leak in Dragon's propulsion system. The mission is now under review with no replacement date.
SpaceX's final planned Falcon 9 Starlink mission from Florida deployed 29 satellites while booster B1067 completed a record 37th flight. California Falcon launches continue as Florida waits for Starship.
SpaceX is targeting its 100th launch of 2026 for late Tuesday night. Starlink 17-50 will send 24 satellites from Vandenberg on a Falcon 9 booster making its 12th flight.
Falcon 9 missions lifted from Florida and California just 39 minutes apart, with both first stages recovered and USSF-366 completing the sprint from Vandenberg.
Falcon 9 lifted Globalstar's long-delayed replacement satellites from Cape Canaveral, then returned its first stage to Landing Zone 40 as Amazon's pending Globalstar deal moves through regulatory review.
SpaceX sent 24 Starlink satellites into orbit from California while Falcon 9 booster B1093 completed its 16th flight and 16th landing.
SpaceX sent BlueBird 11, 12, and 13 into orbit from Cape Canaveral, then recovered the Falcon 9 booster after its 30th flight.
NASA and its partners have finished Crew-13's final media appearance before the four-person international crew travels to Florida for a mid-September SpaceX launch.
SpaceX sent the NRO's classified NROL-95 payload to orbit from pad 40, then returned Falcon 9's first stage to Landing Zone 2.
SpaceX is targeting Falcon 9 liftoffs from California and Florida less than six hours apart, with 53 Starlink satellites and two veteran boosters in the plan.
SpaceX turned a routine Starlink batch into another reuse record Thursday morning, flying its most-traveled Falcon 9 booster, B1067, for the 36th time on the Starlink 10-42 mission from Cape Canaveral.
On the Starlink 10-50 flight, the first stage did more than fly and land. It carried two Besxar semiconductor pods on a quick round trip to the edge of space, opening a second lane for reusable rockets.
A morning Falcon 9 sent 24 Starlink satellites toward orbit, and SpaceX queued up a 7.5-ton SiriusXM satellite from Cape Canaveral for after dark the same Sunday.
A flat, disc-shaped capsule called Starfall is set to fly from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, and it could rewrite how cargo comes home from orbit.
Falcon 9 lifted off Friday evening from Cape Canaveral carrying a Dragon capsule packed with research experiments and cargo for the ISS Expedition 74 crew. Autonomous docking is set for Sunday morning.
Blue Origin just made history today. And also made a pretty costly mistake in the very same mission.