SpaceX conducts engine test fire for communications satellite launch (members only)

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad ahead of a Feb. 8 launch attempt with NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory.

The U.S. Space Force says it will launch two GPS navigation satellites on reused Falcon 9 boosters next year through a restructured contract with SpaceX that saved taxpayers $52 million, the first time the military has agreed to fly operational national security payloads on previously-flown rockets.

Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent to orbit with 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network.