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June 6, 2026

Breaking News

[ June 5, 2026 ] NASA crew briefly shelters inside Dragon capsule as Russia addresses new space station leaks Mission Reports
[ June 4, 2026 ] NASA head urges new launcher for Blue Origin’s moon landers to meet Artemis mission deadlines Moon Base
[ June 3, 2026 ] SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Falcon 9
[ June 3, 2026 ] Blue Origin vows to resume New Glenn flights by year’s end Mission Reports
[ June 3, 2026 ] SpaceX launches sunrise Starlink mission following weather scrub Falcon 9

SpaceX breaks launchpad turnaround record with midnight Starlink flight

June 27, 2025 Will Robinson-Smith

The Starlink 10-34 mission was SpaceX’s 80th Falcon 9 launch of the year. Liftoff from pad 40 occurred at 12:26 a.m. EDT (0426 UTC).

SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

June 25, 2025 Will Robinson-Smith

The mission comes as SpaceX continues to ferry four astronauts to the International Space Station on Axiom Mission 4, which launched in the predawn hours. Liftoff occurred from pad 40 at 3:54 p.m. EDT (1954 UTC).

Commercial crew blasts off on privately-funded space station research mission

June 25, 2025 William Harwood

Strapped into a new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule making its maiden flight, Whitson, test pilot Shubhanshu Shukla of India, European Space Agency astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, and Hungarian engineer Tibor Kapu roared away from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 2:31 a.m. EDT.

ULA launches Kuiper 2 mission on Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral

June 22, 2025 Will Robinson-Smith

The 27 Kuiper satellites will head to low Earth orbit on an Atlas 5 rocket flying in a 551 configuration, using five solid rocket boosters. ULA launched its rocket at 6:54 a.m. EDT (1054 UTC) on Monday, June 23.

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on Transporter-14 smallsat rideshare mission

June 22, 2025 Will Robinson-Smith

The mission carried 70 payloads to low Earth orbit, including three orbital transfer vehicles and re-entry capsules. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened on Monday, June 23, at 2:25 p.m. PDT (5:25 p.m. EDT, 2125 UTC).

SpaceX launches Starlink 10-23 following Sunday morning scrub

June 21, 2025 Will Robinson-Smith

The Starlink 10-23 mission was SpaceX’s 260th orbital flight from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff occurred on Monday, June 23, at 1:58 a.m. EDT (0558 UTC).

Next Starship explodes on test stand

June 19, 2025 Spaceflight Now

SpaceX’s next Starship vehicle, Ship 36, was destroyed in a catastrophic explosion shortly after 11 p.m. CT (0400 UTC) Wednesday as it was being readied for a static fire test at the company’s Massey facility, near Starbase, Texas.

Firefly Aerospace aims to deploy first commercial lunar imaging service

June 18, 2025 Will Robinson-Smith

The Ocula imaging service will be built into the Elytra orbital vehicle launching as part of Blue Ghost Mission 2 in 2026.

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

June 17, 2025 Will Robinson-Smith

The Starlink 10-18 mission will be SpaceX’s 75th Falcon 9 launch of 2025. It’s targeting liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 1:55 a.m. EDT (0555 UTC).

SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB

June 16, 2025 Will Robinson-Smith

The Starlink 15-9 mission will be the 200th orbital launch from Space Launch Complex 4 East to date. SpaceX is targeting liftoff of its Falcon 9 rocket at 8:36 p.m. PDT (11:36 p.m. EDT, 0336 UTC).