A Shortfall of Gravitas – Spaceflight Now

January 21, 2025

Breaking News

[ January 21, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Falcon 9
[ January 18, 2025 ] SpaceX completes 400th Falcon booster landing on mission featuring 27 Starlink satellites Falcon 9
[ January 17, 2025 ] SpaceX successfully catches Super Heavy booster, loses Starship upper stage during Flight 7 Mission Reports
[ January 16, 2025 ] Launch preview: SpaceX to launch its Starship rocket on a 7th suborbital test flight from Starbase Mission Reports
[ January 15, 2025 ] American, Japanese robotic landers share rocket launch to the Moon Falcon 9

Mid-ignition issue forces a scrub of Falcon 9 launch with Astranis’ MicroGEO satellites

December 20, 2024 Will Robinson-Smith

The mission, dubbed ‘Astranis: From One to Many,’ includes the company’s new UtilitySat, which is designed to relocate within geostationary Earth orbit over its life to respond to different mission objectives.

New drone ship under construction for SpaceX rocket landings

February 14, 2018 Stephen Clark

SpaceX will deploy a new rocket landing platform off Florida’s Space Coast to enter a rotation with another drone ship stationed at Cape Canaveral, company founder Elon Musk said Monday.