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Auriga Space raises $6 million to shoot rockets off an electromagnetic launch track

While U.S.-based companies are launching more payloads into orbit than ever before, they’re still limited by the inefficiency of conventional rockets—with rockets, most of the weight is in the propellant, […]

SpaceX launches Starlink Group 17-3 smallsats from California

On Friday, July 18 at 8:52 p.m. PT, it was noted that this was Falcon 9’s 88th launch of 2025 including Starlink’s Group 17-3 group of 24 Starlink smallsats to […]

Arianespace to launch Airbus Defence and Space’s CO3D satellites and CNES’s MicroCarb satellite on July 25 from French Guiana

On Friday July 25th, 2025, at 11:03 p.m. local time (02:03 a.m. UTC, 04:03 a.m. CEST, on July 26th, 2025), Arianespace is to launch Airbus Defence and Space’s CO3D satellites, […]

SES’s 9th + 10th O3b mPOWER satellites arrive at Cape Canaveral

SES‘s ninth and tenth O3b mPOWER satellites have arrived at Cape Canaveral where they will be readied for launch by SpaceX this summer. Both satellites will join the eight O3b […]

United Launch Alliance + Amazon launch the Kuiper 2 mission

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Kuiper 2 mission for Amazon’s Project Kuiper lifted off on June 23 at 6:54 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 […]

SpaceX’s successful Thursday launch of Starlink’s Group 6-74 smallsats

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on Thursday, April 24 launched 28 of Starlink’s Group 6-74 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station […]

SpaceX launches Starship’s sixth flight test including a banana as the payload

SpaceX successfully launched Starship from Texas to complete the sixth flight test as Elon Musk continues his mission of sending memes to the moon. His Starship rocket will blast off […]

SpaceX ‘one down of 13 Direct to Cell and three launches to go’ to round out the constellation including Starlink Group 9-11 smallsats on Wednesday

SpaceX will launch 20 Starlink smallsats to include 13 Direct to Cell from Vandenberg on Wednesday, November 13 at 8:21 PM – 12:21 AM PST (11:21 p.m. EST, 0421 UTC). […]

SpaceX’s Group 6-69 of Starlink smallsats launch is moved to Monday, Veterans’ Day, and Koreasat 6-A launch

SpaceX is targeting Monday, November 11 for a Falcon 9 launch of 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station […]