Launch Log

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Dragon 2 spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The flight was the 28th mission by SpaceX conducted under a Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Delayed from June 3. Scrubbed June 4 due to high winds in the booster recovery area.

Updated: June 06

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Moved forward from June 3. Delayed from May 30 and June 1. Read our full story.

Updated: June 04

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 52 Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Read our full story.

Updated: June 02

A Chinese Long March 2F rocket launched the Shenzhou 16 spacecraft with three Chinese astronauts to rendezvous and dock with the Chinese space station in low Earth orbit. This is China’s 11th crewed space mission, and the fifth to the Chinese space station. The mission is commanded by Jing Haipeng, the spaceflight engineer is Zhu Yangzhu, and the payload specialist is Gui Haichao. Read our full story.

Updated: May 31

An Indian Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. 2 rocket, designated GSLV-F12, launched the NVS 01 navigation satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, also called Navigation with Indian Constellation, or NavIC. The spacecraft is also known as IRNSS 1J, and is the first in a second-generation fleet of Indian navigation satellites. Read our full story.

Updated: May 31

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Badr 8 communications satellite for Arabsat based in Saudi Arabia. From geostationary orbit, Badr 8 will provide communications coverage for Arabsat customers over Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Badr 8 also hosts an optical communications payload developed by Airbus. The spacecraft was built by Airbus, and is based on the Eurostar Neo platform. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from May 21. Scrubbed on May 23 by bad weather. Delayed from May 24.

Updated: May 28

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the third pair of small CubeSats for NASA’s TROPICS mission. The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats, or TROPICS, mission will measure environmental and inner-core conditions for tropical cyclones. These two satellites were originally contracted to launch on Astra’s Rocket 3 vehicle. This mission was nicknamed “Coming To A Storm Near You” by Rocket Lab. Delayed from May 15, May 22, and May 24. Read our full story.

Updated: May 26

A Russian government Soyuz rocket launched the 84th Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station. The rocket flew in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration. Read our full story.

Updated: May 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on the program’s 10th flight with astronauts. The commercial mission, managed by Axiom Space, is commanded by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. Paying passenger John Shoffner will serve as pilot of the mission. Two commercial space fliers from Saudi Arabia, Ali AlQarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, will also be on the approximately 12-day mission to the space station. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea off the coast of Florida. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will return to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral. Delayed from May 8 as result of delays in previous Falcon Heavy launch.

Updated: May 22

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 15 spare satellites for OneWeb’s first-generation global internet network and one prototype for OneWeb’s Gen2 second-generation network. Five spare satellites for Iridium’s voice and data relay fleet also launched on this mission. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from May 19. See our Mission Status Center.

Updated: May 21

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from April and May 18. Read our full story.

Updated: May 21

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 56 Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from April. Read our full story.

Updated: May 14

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites. This mission deployed 51 Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from April. Read our full story.

Updated: May 11

A Chinese Long March 7 rocket launched the Tianzhou 6 resupply ship to dock with the Chinese space station. The automated cargo craft is the fifth resupply freighter for the Chinese space station. Read our full story.

Updated: May 10

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the second pair of small CubeSats for NASA’s TROPICS mission. The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats, or TROPICS, mission will measure environmental and inner-core conditions for tropical cyclones. These two satellites were originally contracted to launch on Astra’s Rocket 3 vehicle. This mission was nicknamed “Rocket Like A Hurricane” by Rocket Lab. Read our full story.

Updated: May 09

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: May 04

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the ViaSat 3 Americas broadband communications satellite. ViaSat 3 Americas is the first of at least three new-generation Boeing-built geostationary satellites for ViaSat. A small communications satellite named Arcturus will launch as a secondary payload for Astranis. Delayed from 3rd Quarter and December 2022. Delayed from January, March 2023, April 8, April 18, April 24, and April 26. Scrubbed on April 27 and April 28.

Updated: May 02

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the second pair of O3b mPOWER broadband internet satellites into Medium Earth Orbit for SES of Luxembourg. The satellites, built by Boeing, will provide internet services over most of the populated world, building on SES’s O3b network. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from February and March. Read our full story.

Updated: April 29

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 46 Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from April 25. Scrubbed on April 26.

Updated: April 28

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, or PSLV, will launch the TeLEOS 2 satellite for Singapore. TeLEOS 2 was built in Singapore by ST Electronics, and carries an all-weather synthetic aperture radar Earth observation payload. Read our full story.

Updated: April 24

A SpaceX Super Heavy booster and Starship launch vehicle launched on the first fully integrated test flight of the new rocket. The mission ended four minutes after liftoff with a self-destruct command, following loss of vehicle control. If everything went according to plan, the mission would have traveled around the world for nearly one full orbit, resulting in a re-entry and splashdown of the Starship near Hawaii. The mission was attempting to reach near orbital velocity. The Super Heavy booster would have targeted a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. Delayed from 2022. Scrubbed on April 17. See our Mission Status Center.

Updated: April 21

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 21 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Read our full story.

Updated: April 19

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter 7 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with numerous small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg. Delayed from April 9. Moved forward from April 12. Delayed from April 11. Scrubbed on April 14 due to bad weather.

Updated: April 15

Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, designated VA260, to launch the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or JUICE. The JUICE spacecraft, built by Airbus, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons — Ganymede, Callisto and Europa — with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. JUICE will enter orbit around Jupiter in July 2031. This will mark the penultimate launch of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket. Scrubbed on April 13 due to high risk of lightning at the launch site.

Updated: April 15

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Intelsat 40e communications satellite for Intelsat. Intelsat 40e will join Intelsat’s “Epic” fleet of high-throughput satellites, providing in-flight connectivity and other mobile communications services over North and Central America. Intelsat 40e is a partial replacement for Intelsat 29e, which failed in 2019. Intelsat 40e hosts NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument to measure atmospheric chemistry and monitor air pollution over North America. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite was built by Maxar, and is based on the 1300 platform. Delayed from March 7. Read our launch story.

Updated: April 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 10 Tranche 0 demonstration satellites for the U.S. military’s Space Development Agency. The launch was the first of two Falcon 9 missions to carry SDA demonstration spacecraft for a future constellation of military missile tracking and data relay satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg. Delayed from Sept. 24. Delayed from Sept. 29 by payload supply chain issues. Delayed from January due to satellite issue. Delayed following an abort at T-3 seconds on Mar. 30. Our live coverage.

Updated: April 02

A Chinese Long March 2D rocket launched four radar satellites into orbit.

Updated: April 10

A Russian Soyuz 2-1v rocket launched an undisclosed payload for the Russian military.

Updated: April 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from March 24. Payload originally Starlink V2 Mini satellites but changed to V1.5 spacecraft.

Updated: March 31

An Israeli Shavit 2 rocket launched the Ofek 13 radar spy satellite for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. The radar Earth-imaging spacecraft was built by Israel Aerospace Industries and launched into a retrograde orbit.

Updated: April 02

India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. 3 (GSLV Mk.3) launched 36 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is developing a constellation of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit for low-latency broadband communications. Read our live coverage.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Read our launch story.

Updated: March 25

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launch two commercial optical Earth-imaging satellites for BlackSky. This mission was nicknamed “The Beat Goes On” by Rocket Lab, and featured an attempt to recover the Electron’s first stage booster at sea. Read our launch coverage.

Updated: March 26

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched the fourth Bars-M cartography satellite for the Russian military.

Updated: March 25

A Relativity Space Terran 1 rocket launched on its inaugural demonstration flight. It did not include a customer payload. Scrubbed on March 8 and March 11. Failed to reach orbit when a problem occurred during the second-stage portion of flight. Read our launch story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched SES 18 and SES 19 communications satellites for SES of Luxembourg. SES 18 and 19, built by Northrop Grumman, will provide C-band television and data services over the United States. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from March 8. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 52 Starlink internet satellites. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from March 16. See our Mission Status Center.

Updated: March 25

A Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle lifted off with the Capella-9 and Capella-10 commercial radar Earth observation satellites for Capella Space. This was the second Rocket Lab mission from a new launch pad in Virginia. Delayed from March 11 due to upper level winds. Delayed from March 15. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Dragon 2 spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The flight is the 27th mission by SpaceX conducted under a Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Delayed from March 11. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A Russian government Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage launched an Olymp-K communications satellite for the Russian military. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket failed during launch of nine small satellites for seven customers after dropping from a modified Boeing 747 carrier jet. The mission will be the first orbital launch based out of the United Kingdom and all of Western Europe. The LauncherOne rocket carried small payloads for the UK Ministry of Defense’s Defense Science & Technology Laboratory, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, RHEA Group, Space Forge, Satellite Applications Catapult, SatRevolution, and Oman. Virgin Orbit called this mission “Start Me Up.” Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 40 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is developing and deploying a constellation of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit for low-latency broadband communications. This was the third launch of OneWeb satellites with SpaceX, and OneWeb’s 17th launch overall. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Delayed from March 1. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A Japanese H3 rocket failed during launch on its first test flight with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite 3, or ALOS 3, Earth observation satellite for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The second stage engine on the H3 rocket did not ignite. ALOS 3, also named Daichi 3, was designed to capture high-resolution, wide-swath images of all of the world’s land surfaces, providing data for applications in disaster management, land use, urban sprawl, scientific research, and coastal and vegetation environmental monitoring. The H3 rocket for Test Flight 1, or TF1, flew in the H3-22S configuration with two first stage engines, two strap-on solid rocket boosters, and a short payload fairing. Delayed from Feb. 11. Countdown Feb. 16 aborted after main engine start. Delayed from March 6 by bad weather forecast. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 51 Starlink internet satellites. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 27, Feb. 28, and March 2. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft on the program’s ninth flight with astronauts. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, Warren “Woody” Hoburg, UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev launched on the Crew Dragon spacecraft to begin a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea. Delayed from Feb. 19 and Feb. 26. Scrubbed on Feb. 27 due to a concern with the TEA-TEB ignition system. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 21 Starlink internet satellites. This was the first mission to launch a new larger Starlink spacecraft design known as “Starlink V2 Mini.” The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 23. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A Russian government Soyuz rocket launched the uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to the International Space Station. The mission was originally supposed to carry Russian commander Oleg Kononenko, Russian flight engineer Nikolai Chub, and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, but managers removed the crew from the mission in order to use the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft as a replacement for the damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the space station. The rocket flew in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Inmarsat 6 F2 communications satellite for London-based Inmarsat. Built by Airbus Defense and Space, the satellite carries L-band and Ka-band payloads to provide mobile communications services to airplanes and ships. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 51 Starlink internet satellites. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 55 Starlink internet satellites. This was the fourth launch into a new orbital shell for SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink constellation, called Starlink Gen2. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 1. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

India’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) launched on its second orbital test flight following a failed inaugural launch attempt in 2022. This mission, known as SSLV-D2, launched India’s EOS-07 Earth observation technology demonstratoin satellite and two small rideshare payloads for Space Kidz India and Antaris. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A Russian government Soyuz rocket launched the 83rd Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station. The rocket flew in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Amazonas Nexus communications satellite for the Spanish company Hispasat. Amazonas Nexus will provide broadband connectivity to airplanes, ships, and other mobile users across the Americas, Greenland, and travel corridors across the Atlantic Ocean. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite was built by Thales Alenia Space, and is based on the Spacebus NEO platform. Scrubbed on Feb. 5 due to poor launch and recovery weather. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A Russian government Proton rocket launched the Elektro-L 4 geostationary weather satellite. Built by NPO Lavochkin, the Elektro-L 4 satellite will provide near-real-time imagery of weather systems over Russia’s Far East and the Asia-Pacific region. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 53 Starlink internet satellites. This was the third launch into a new orbital shell for SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink constellation, called Starlink Gen2. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 1. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 49 Starlink internet satellites and a rideshare space tug payload for the Italian company D-Orbit. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Jan. 29 and Jan. 30. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 56 Starlink internet satellites. This was the second launch into a new orbital shell for SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink constellation, called Starlink Gen2. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Jan. 24. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A Japanese H-2A rocket, designated H-2A F46, launched the IGS Radar 7 radar reconnaissance satellite for Japan’s Information Gathering Satellites for the Japanese government’s Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center. The H-2A rocket flew in the 202 configuration with two strap-on solid rocket boosters. Delayed from Jan. 24. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle lifted off with three satellites for HawkEye 360, radio frequency geospatial analytics provider. This was the first Rocket Lab mission from a new launch pad in Virginia. Delayed from Dec. 7, Dec. 9, Dec. 13, Dec. 15, Dec. 16, Dec. 18, and Jan. 23. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 51 Starlink internet satellites. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Jan. 10. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the U.S. Space Force’s sixth third-generation navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite was built by Lockheed Martin. Delayed from late 2022. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the USSF 67 mission for the U.S. Space Force. The mission launched the Space Force’s second Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM, or CBAS 2, military communications satellite and the Long Duration Propulsive ESPA 3A, or LDPE 3A, rideshare satellite hosting multiple experimental payloads. The Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters landed at Landing Zones 1 and 1 at Cape Canaveral, and SpaceX did not attempt to recover the core stage. Delayed from 4th Quarter 2022, Jan. 10, Jan. 12, Jan. 13, and Jan. 14. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

An ABL RS-1 rocket failed during launch on its first orbital test flight, carrying two CubeSats for OmniTeq, a company with plans to deploy a constellation of small satellites to provide maritime communications services. Delayed from November and Dec. 7. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 40 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is developing and deploying a constellation of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit for low-latency broadband communications. This was the second launch of OneWeb satellites with SpaceX, and OneWeb’s 16th launch overall. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Delayed from Jan. 8. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A Chinese Long March 7A rocket launched launched the Shijian 23 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. Shijian 23 is likely an experimental communications satellite.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter 6 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with 114 small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Delayed from October, November, and December. Delayed from Jan. 2. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26