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December 10, 2025

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[ December 10, 2025 ] Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 160th Falcon 9 rocket of 2025 Falcon 9
[ December 9, 2025 ] SpaceX launches classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office Falcon 9
[ December 9, 2025 ] Soyuz safely lands in Kazakhstan Mission Reports
[ December 7, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 3,000th Starlink satellite in 2025 on record-setting 32nd flight of Falcon 9 booster Falcon 9
[ December 7, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Falcon 9

China launches surge of space missions

November 30, 2021 Stephen Clark

China has launched four space missions from three different spaceports in the span of a week, hauling cargo into orbit for military communications, radar surveillance, and optical imaging.

Weather forecast favorable for SpaceX launch this week

November 29, 2021 Stephen Clark

Forecasters predict a 90% chance of good weather Wednesday night at Cape Canaveral for launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a fresh group of Starlink internet satellites.

Russian military launches new missile warning satellite

November 29, 2021 Stephen Clark

Russia’s military successfully deployed a spacecraft in orbit Nov. 25 to join a constellation of satellites circling the globe to monitor for missile launches.

NASA gives green light to fuel James Webb Space Telescope

November 28, 2021 Stephen Clark

NASA engineers have cleared teams at the Guiana Space Center in South America to begin loading 63 gallons of fuel and oxidizer into the James Webb Space Telescope, after extra testing showed the observatory suffered no damage during a processing incident in the clean room earlier this month.

Astronaut Alan Shepard’s daughter and Michael Strahan named to spaceflight

November 28, 2021 William Harwood

The third piloted flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spacecraft will launch December 9 with a crew of six, including a network morning anchor and the eldest daughter of Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, the company announced Nov. 23.

Russian node module docks with International Space Station

November 26, 2021 Stephen Clark

Russia’s Prichal docking module linked up with the International Space Station Friday, adding the final planned piece of the Russian segment of the outpost to provide a new connection for future crew and cargo ships.

NASA spacecraft blasts off on experimental mission to divert asteroid

November 24, 2021 Stephen Clark

A small NASA space probe blasted off from California early Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a first-of-its-kind mission to change the orbit of an asteroid, pioneering a technique that may one day be used to divert an asteroid off of a collision course with Earth.

Live coverage: Russia launches new space station module from Kazakhstan

November 24, 2021 Stephen Clark

Russia plans to add another module to the International Space Station this week, and the journey began with a launch from Kazakhstan at 8:06 a.m. EST (1306 GMT) Wednesday on a Soyuz rocket. Russia’s Prichal node module departed the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a two-day chase of the space station.

Photos: Falcon 9 rocket stands on Vandenberg launch pad with NASA asteroid probe

November 24, 2021 Stephen Clark

These photos show SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket standing on Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, hours before liftoff with NASA’s DART mission, an experiment to test how a spacecraft might deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth.

Live coverage: NASA, SpaceX launch asteroid deflection experiment

November 23, 2021 Stephen Clark

A first-of-its-kind asteroid deflection experiment lifted off overnight from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SpaceX launched NASA’s DART mission on a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:21 a.m. EST Wednesday (0621 GMT; 10:21 p.m. PST Tuesday) on a 10-month mission to collide with a near-Earth asteroid, proving a technique that could protect Earth from a future threat from space.