On Friday, March 14 at 11:43 p.m. PT, SpaceX launched the Transporter-13 mission to orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Photos by […]
Mission Payloads
IM-2 lands on the Moon but its status is uncertain
After a successful launch last week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission landed on the Moon on March 6 shortly after 11:30 a.m. EST. The craft […]
Blue Origin earns another ‘feather in their cap’ with success of NS-29 mission launch
Blue Origin successfully completed its 29th New Shepard flight and 14th payload mission today from Launch Site One in West Texas. The payloads experienced roughly two minutes of lunar gravity forces. The […]
Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-29 now moved to Tuesday
Another launch day has been announced by Blue Origin regarding the much delayed and scrubbed New Shepard NS-29 mission. The new date is now Tuesday, February 4 at 7:30 am […]
Blue Origin says Go! to New Shepard’s NS-29 Tuesday mission
So far, so good, for tomorrow’s New Shepard NS-29 launch from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch. The forecast calls for a temperature of 41°F, overcast clouds, 100% cloud […]
SpaceX’s bittersweet seventh flight test, the loss of Starship but successful catch of booster
All began smoothly as SpaceX’s Starship tore through the skies from Boca Chica, Texas with 33 out of 33 engines working to send it on it’s seventh flight test. All […]
SpaceX sends Firefly’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s RESILIENCE lunar landers on mission to the Moon
On Wednesday, January 15 at 1:11 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Also […]
SpaceX’s Transporter-12 mission sends 131 smallsats soaring near California’s beach
On a beautiful Tuesday, January 14, California morning, at 11:09 a.m. PT, with blue skies and the ocean and beach in the background SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-12 mission […]
NRO launches sixth mission of Proliferated Architecture with NROL-149 and the last launch of 2024
Statement from the National Reconnaissance Office The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), in partnership with U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX, successfully launched the NROL-149 mission aboard a […]
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 […]