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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Crew Dragon Endeavour, is pictured at sunset on Sunday, July 27, 2025. It will launch the Crew-11 mission, which is schedule to liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, July 31, 2025. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is preparing for a mid-afternoon demonstration on Monday to verify the health of the Falcon 9 rocket that will carry four humans up to the International Space Station this week. The three astronauts and one cosmonaut of the mission, dubbed Crew-11, will carry out a long-duration stay onboard the orbiting outpost with liftoff planned for Thursday, July 31. The launch company will fuel its 70-meter-tall rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center before igniting the nine Merlin engines for a roughly...

The three astronauts and cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-11 mission descend from a Gulfstream jet at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. From bottom to top: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now The next four souls who will fly to the International Space Station touched down in Florida on a sweltering and humid Saturday afternoon. Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, was first off the NASA Gulfstream jet, followed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. The SpaceX Crew-11 mission is led by Cardman who will be making her first trip to the ISS. “Landing here a...

Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This launch is the 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory for NASA and will liftoff on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Thursday, Aug. 21, to launch the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credentialing to cover prelaunch and launch activities is open to U.S. media. The application deadline for U.S. citizens is 11:59 p.m. EDT, Sunday, Aug. 3. All accreditation requests must be submitted online at: https://media.ksc.nasa.gov Credentialed media will receive a confirmation email upon approval. NASA’s ...

Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot payload processing facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The site is used to prepare its Project Kuiper satellites ahead of launches on Blue Origin’s New Glenn, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and United Launch Alliances’s Vulcan and Atlas 5 rockets. Image: Amazon Amazon is hoping to get a good rhythm going with the launch and deployment of Project Kuiper, its 3,232-satellite internet constellation, which began operational flights in April. The tech giant said on Thursday that its nearly $140 million investment in Florida is a cornerstone to making that happen. While shown in the background of photos and hinted at in other public relations materials during its first three launch campaigns, Amazon confirmed on July 24 that its...

NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission launches at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The TRACERS mission will study magnetic reconnection around Earth — a process in which electrically charged plasmas exchange energy in the atmosphere — to understand how the Sun’s solar wind interacts with the magnetosphere, Earth’s protective magnetic shield. Image: SpaceX SpaceX launched twin satellites for NASA Wednesday that will study how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field, creating constantly changing and occasionally dangerous “space weather” affecting satellites, electrical...