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NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, a former underwater vehicle researcher, spoke with Spaceflight Now in the run-up to her first launch.

A Falcon 9 rocket rolls to launch pad 39A on Apr. 12, 2023, for a static test fire before its launch with the ViaSat 3 Americas broadband communications satellite.

Spaceflight Now Editor Stephen Clark speaks with Inmarsat Chief Technology Officer Peter Hadinger about the planned launch of the Inmarsat 6 F2 communications satellite.

The carriage that will carry the chopsticks mechanism up and down the Florida Starship launch pad tower was rotated vertical and lifted on to a support structure on Jan. 7, 2023.

Spaceflight Now’s Stephen Clark interviews Barbara Cohen, Lunar Flashlight principal investigator from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The Lunar Flashlight CubeSat will be a rideshare payload alongside the ispace Hakuto-R Mission 1.

In this time-lapse video a Falcon 9 rocket is seen going upright at Cape Canaveral’s launch pad 40 on Nov. 29, 2022, ahead of the planned launch of ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1, the first privately-led Japanese mission to attempt a lunar landing.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster with no markings rolled by the VAB recently. Note the driver of the transporter assisting with his foot.