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May 18, 2025

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[ May 16, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 1,000th Starlink satellite of the year during Friday morning mission Falcon 9
[ May 14, 2025 ] Axiom Mission 4 delayed due to Dragon capsule readiness Mission Reports
[ May 14, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 475th Falcon 9 rocket to date on afternoon Starlink flight Falcon 9
[ May 14, 2025 ] Intuitive Machines’ CEO points to issues that prevented upright touchdown during IM-2 Moon landing Mission Reports
[ May 12, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB 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.