Falcon 9 – Spaceflight Now

July 21, 2026

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[ July 21, 2026 ] Live coverage: SpaceX to launch novel geosynchronous robotic servicing satellite on decade-long mission Falcon 9
[ July 16, 2026 ] Post-ignition anomaly causes abort of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 Artemis
[ July 4, 2026 ] Semiconductor manufacturing test bed flies alongside Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launch Falcon 9
[ July 1, 2026 ] SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Falcon 9
[ June 30, 2026 ] Astronauts ‘operate’ on space station’s broken robot arm Mission Reports

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch novel geosynchronous robotic servicing satellite on decade-long mission

July 21, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith

Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle features the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and DARPA. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled during a four-hour window that opens at 5:15 p.m. EDT (2115 UTC).

SpaceX launches Starlink mission from California a day after last-second abort

July 21, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith

The Starlink 17-39 mission is SpaceX’s 85th Falcon 9 rocket launch of the year. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base occurred at 7:49 a.m. PDT (10:49 a.m. EDT / 1449 UTC).

SpaceX suffers rare, last-second Falcon 9 rocket launch abort

July 20, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith

The Starlink 17-39 mission is SpaceX’s 85th Falcon 9 rocket launch of the year. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 7:49 a.m. PDT (10:49 a.m. EDT / 1449 UTC).

SpaceX launches 21 communications satellites for the Space Development Agency

July 16, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith

The Tranche 1 Transporter Layer E (T1TL-E) mission was the third batch of operational satellites launched to support the SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture satellite constellation. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 1:32 p.m. PDT (4:32 p.m. EDT / 2032 UTC).

SpaceX launches a flight-proven Falcon booster for 600th time

July 13, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith

The Starlink 10-45 mission added another 29 broadband internet satellites to SpaceX’s low Earth orbit constellation. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 5:10 a.m. EDT (0910 UTC).

SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg

July 13, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith

The Starlink 15-14 mission will add another 27 broadband internet satellites to the low Earth orbit constellation. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 6:28:17 p.m. PDT (9:28:17 p.m. EDT / 0128:17 UTC).

SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB

July 10, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith

The Starlink 17-48 mission added another 24 satellites to the low Earth orbit constellation. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 8:01 p.m. PDT (11:01 p.m. EDT / 0301 UTC).

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on record-breaking 36th flight

July 9, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith

The flight-leading booster, B1067, launched the Starlink 10-42 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff from pad 40 happened at 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 UTC) on Thursday morning.

Fire detectors, military tech demos, 3D printers among SpaceX rideshare payloads launching on midnight Falcon 9 flight

July 6, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith

SpaceX launched a series of 81 payloads to a Sun-synchronous Earth orbit over a roughly 2.5-hour-long deployment period. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 12:12 a.m. PDT (0312 EDT / 0712 UTC).

Semiconductor manufacturing test bed flies alongside Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launch

July 4, 2026 Steven Young

Liftoff of the Starlink 10-50 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 happened at 6:50 a.m. EDT (1050 UTC). The rocket’s first-stage booster carried two semiconductor manufacturing pods for Besxar Space Industries.