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[ July 25, 2026 ] Live Coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch Starlink satellites from West Coast Falcon 9
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[ July 21, 2026 ] SpaceX launches novel geosynchronous robotic servicing satellite on decade-long mission Falcon 9

South Korea’s all-domestic satellite launcher reaches orbit for first time

June 21, 2022 Stephen Clark

South Korea’s space agency said Tuesday that the country’s 15-story-tall Nuri launcher successfully reached orbit for the first time, giving the nation a fully domestic satellite launch capability after a $1.5 billion development program lasting more than a decade.

NASA’s Artemis moon rocket fully fueled for first time in practice countdown

June 20, 2022 Stephen Clark

NASA loaded more than three-quarters of a million gallons of super-cold propellant into the first Space Launch System moon rocket Monday in Florida, achieving key milestones in a practice countdown but falling short of all the test objectives after discovering a new hydrogen leak.

Live coverage: NASA runs another countdown rehearsal for SLS moon rocket

June 20, 2022 Stephen Clark

NASA ran through a countdown rehearsal for the Space Launch System moon rocket Monday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch team loaded more than 750,000 gallons of super-cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the more than 30-story-tall rocket, a key test before a demonstration flight later this year.

SpaceX launches third Falcon 9 rocket in less than two days

June 19, 2022 Stephen Clark

SpaceX hauled a Globalstar communications satellite into orbit early Sunday from Cape Canaveral, pulling off the third Falcon 9 rocket flight in 36 hours, the fastest sequence of three missions by any commercial launch company in history.

Live coverage: SpaceX launches Globalstar satellite from Florida

June 19, 2022 Stephen Clark

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:27 a.m. EDT (0427 GMT) Sunday with the Globalstar FM15 satellite, a spare spacecraft for Globalstar’s commercial voice and data relay constellation.

NASA tries again to complete moon rocket’s practice countdown

June 18, 2022 William Harwood

Countdown clocks began ticking Saturday for NASA’s fourth attempt to complete a dress-rehearsal countdown and fueling test of its Space Launch System moon rocket, a requirement before the huge booster can be cleared for launch on its long-awaited maiden flight.

Globalstar hush-hush ahead of launch with SpaceX

June 18, 2022 Stephen Clark

Globalstar is set to add a spare spacecraft to its commercial data relay network early Sunday with a launch from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but the satellite operator remained silent about the mission on the eve of liftoff.

SpaceX launches German military radar satellite from California

June 18, 2022 Stephen Clark

A four-ton radar observation satellite for the German military soared into orbit Saturday from California on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, beginning a 10-year mission to collect all-weather reconnaissance imagery.

Live coverage: SpaceX launches German satellite, lands Falcon rocket in California

June 18, 2022 Stephen Clark

A German military reconnaissance satellite rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Saturday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff is occurred at 7:19 a.m. PDT (10:19 a.m. EDT; 1419 GMT), and the Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Vandenberg for landing about eight minutes later.

German military radar satellite ready for SpaceX rocket ride

June 17, 2022 Stephen Clark

The first satellite in a nearly billion-dollar program to provide the German military with improved radar surveillance imagery from space is set to rocket into a polar orbit Saturday from California’s Central Coast on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher.