STS-135: The final shuttle launch

SpaceX carried the Israeli-owned Amos 17 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral into orbit Tuesday on top of a Falcon 9 launcher, nearly three years after a SpaceX rocket explosion destroyed a predecessor payload before it could get off the ground.

Taking another step toward flying space tourists to the edge of space, Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin again flew its New Shepard suborbital booster Thursday with a package of microgravity research experiments.

The Falcon Heavy engine test firing at launch pad 39A seen in 4K high resolution video. The engines fired at 12:30pm EST (1730 GMT) on 24 January 2018 as part of a crucial pre-launch test.