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SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites
SpaceX launched 60 more Starlink internet relay platforms into orbit Sunday as the company ramps up network testing in Washington state and touts a streak of nearly 300 satellites launched since June without a spacecraft failure.
VideoLive coverage: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:25 a.m. EDT (1225 GMT) with 60 more Starlink internet satellites. SpaceX successfully recovered the first stage booster on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
SpaceX crew launch delayed to assess Merlin engine concern
NASA said Saturday that the launch of four astronauts on SpaceX's first operational Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station has been delayed from Oct. 31 until "no sooner than early-to-mid November," allowing time for SpaceX to resolve an issue with Falcon 9 rocket engines that halted a recent launch attempt with a GPS navigation satellite.
SpaceX breaks cycle of scrubs with successful Falcon 9 launch
Sixty more SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites rocketed into orbit Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center, breaking a streak canceled launch attempts at the Florida spaceport in recent weeks and nudging the Starlink network closer to reaching a wider population.
NRO reveals plans for previously-undisclosed SpaceX launch this month
The National Reconnaissance Office has confirmed it will launch a payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral later this month, a mission on SpaceX's schedule that was not publicly disclosed until recently.
SpaceX aborts liftoff of GPS satellite, continuing streak of launch scrubs
For the fourth time this week, a rocket launch from Cape Canaveral was stopped with seconds remaining in the countdown Friday night, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket automatically aborted its liftoff with a new GPS navigation satellite during the engine startup sequence.
Space Force announces new nicknames for GPS satellites
The Space Force says it changed the nickname of a GPS navigation satellite launched in June from Columbus to instead honor Matthew Henson, a Black explorer on the first expedition to the North Pole more than a century ago, “to acknowledge a fuller history of courageous explorers and pioneers.” The military's next GPS navigation satellite, set for launch Friday night, is nicknamed Sacagawea.
Falcon 9 launch timeline with the GPS 3 SV04 navigation satellite
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Nov. 5 carrying the U.S. Air Force's next GPS 3-series navigation satellite destined for an orbit more than 12,000 miles above Earth.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX aborts launch of GPS satellite
The U.S. military's next GPS navigation satellite was ready for launch from Cape Canaveral at 9:43 p.m. EDT Friday (0143 GMT Saturday) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. But SpaceX aborted the countdown just two seconds prior to liftoff.
U.S. military to use previously-flown SpaceX rockets beginning next year
The U.S. Space Force says it will launch two GPS navigation satellites on reused Falcon 9 boosters next year through a restructured contract with SpaceX that saved taxpayers $52 million, the first time the military has agreed to fly operational national security payloads on previously-flown rockets.