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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the vertical launch position ahead of the liftoff of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer C (T1TL-C) mission. Image: SpaceX Update Oct. 14, 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 UTC): SpaceX scrubbed Tuesday’s launch attempt due to poor weather. The Space Development Agency is set to add another 21 satellites to its burgeoning low Earth orbit constellation thanks to a launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It is the second of ten launches that the SDA booked onboard Falcon 9 so far. The T1TL-C mission is the second flight supporting what the SDA calls its Tranche 1 Transport Layer. It’s the latest piece of a satellite constellation dubbed the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). “The mission that we’ve been on for the last six and a half...

SpaceX launches its 11th Starship-Super Heavy rocket from its headquarters at Starbase, Texas, on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. Image: SpaceX SpaceX closed a chapter in its Starship saga on Monday. It launched what appeared to be a nearly flawless suborbital mission with its Version 2 Starship-Super Heavy rocket, the final flight for this iteration of the launch vehicle. The more than 400-foot-tall rocket thundered away from Pad A at Starbase at 6:23 p.m. CDT (7:23 p.m. EDT / 2323 UTC) to begin the roughly one-hour-long flight. The only notable hiccup during ascent was that one of the planned 13 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster, tail number B15, didn’t reignite during the boostback burn. That engine did come back into play during the landing burn, which was a new configuration for SpaceX...

SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy rocket stands atop the orbital launch mount at Pad A at Starbase, Texas. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is preparing for a notable flight for its Starship program. The company is scheduled to launch its Starship-Super Heavy rocket from its headquarters in Starbase, Texas, on Monday evening. The 11th flight test of the integrated Starship launch vehicle will be the final mission both for the Version 2 iteration of the rocket as well as the current configuration of Pad A. SpaceX is targeting liftoff at 6:15 p.m. CDT (7:15 p.m. EDT / 2315 UTC). Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about two hours prior to takeoff.  On Sunday evening, SpaceX said the weather outlook was 80 percent favorable, but didn’t elaborate on the specifics of the meteorological constrain...

SpaceX transports 24 Project Kuiper satellites inside its payload fairings from Amazon’s Payload Processing Facility at the Space Florida Launch and Landing Facility out to Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Amazon Update Oct. 11, 12:21 a.m. EDT (0421 UTC): SpaceX delayed the mission until Sunday, Oct. 12. Update Oct. 9, 1:20 p.m. EDT (1720 UTC): SpaceX delayed the mission until Saturday, Oct. 11. SpaceX was preparing to launch 24 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband internet satellites Thursday night, but punted the mission to Saturday as it faces challenging weather conditions during its initial window of opportunity. The mission, dubbed Kuiper Falcon 03 (KF-03), is the third and final launch that Amazon booked using a Falcon 9 rocket. The tech...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and ULA’s Vulcan rockets launch from their respective pads. Image: Blue Origin, SpaceX, United Launch Alliance Getting newer and increasingly more capable assets in space for U.S. service members and allies is a primary goal for the U.S. Space Force. Among the challenges to bolstering America’s various on orbit capabilities though is having space on Earth to get them ready for launch. To help with processing spacecraft in Florida, the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) tapped Blue Origin to construct a new payload processing facility (PPF) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Initial Operational Capability (IOC) is scheduled for “early calendar year 2028,” according to an SSC Assured Access to Space (AATS) spokesperson. The Na...