PExT – Spaceflight Now

September 3, 2025

Breaking News

[ September 2, 2025 ] Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Wednesday sunrise Falcon 9 flight Falcon 9
[ September 2, 2025 ] Live coverage: SpaceX’s Tuesday night Starlink features rare debut of a Falcon booster Falcon 9
[ August 30, 2025 ] SpaceX’s Sunday morning Falcon 9 launch sends 1,900th Starlink to orbit in 2025 Falcon 9
[ August 29, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites into polar orbit Falcon 9
[ August 29, 2025 ] NASA, NOAA prep spacecraft trio to study the Sun and its impacts Mission Reports

NASA probes to study how the solar wind triggers potentially dangerous ‘space weather’

July 23, 2025 William Harwood

SpaceX launched twin satellites for NASA Wednesday that will study how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field, creating constantly changing and occasionally dangerous “space weather” affecting satellites, electrical grids and other critical systems.

FAA: ‘Regional power outage’ causes last-minute scrub of NASA’s TRACERS mission

July 22, 2025 Will Robinson-Smith

A total of 11 spacecraft will be deployed beginning about 1.5 hours after liftoff. SpaceX is aiming to launch the mission from pad 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 23 at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT, 1813 UTC).