Small Explorers – Spaceflight Now

July 2, 2025

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[ July 1, 2025 ] Live coverage: SpaceX to launch its 500th Falcon 9 rocket Falcon 9
[ July 1, 2025 ] EUMETSAT, ESA launches combo MTG-S1, Sentinel-4 satellite on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Falcon 9
[ June 28, 2025 ] SpaceX completes 60th Starlink flight of 2025 Falcon 9
[ June 27, 2025 ] SpaceX breaks launchpad turnaround record with midnight Starlink flight Falcon 9
[ June 25, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9

SpaceX wins NASA contract to launch X-ray telescope on reused rocket

July 8, 2019 Stephen Clark

NASA has selected a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — flying with a reused first stage booster — to launch the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in April 2021, bypassing Northrop Grumman’s air-launched Pegasus rocket for the task.

NASA selects missions to observe the sun and its impact on Earth

June 26, 2019 Stephen Clark

NASA has selected two satellite missions for launch on the same rocket in 2022 to investigate the origins of the solar wind and explore the interaction between magnetic fields around Earth with those from the sun.