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File photo of a Falcon 9 fueled for launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch from the West Coast Saturday, carrying another batch of satellites for the company’...

SpaceX’s Super Heavy-Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, blasts off on the program’s 13th test flight in another critical milestone for Elon Musk’s rocket company. Image: SpaceX

SpaceX launched it’s 13th Super Heavy-Starship rocket Thursday, with the giant booster chalking up an on-target but “hard” splashdown off the Texas Gulf Coast while the Starship upper stage...

In a historic first, all six radio frequency antennas at the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex – part of NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) – carried out a test to receive data from the agency’s Voyager 1 spacecraft at the same time on April 20, 2024. Known as “arraying,” combining the receiving power of several antennas allows the DSN to collect the very faint signals from f...

A fully-integrated Starship-Super Heavy rocket stands at Pad 2 at Starbase prior to the second attempt at launching the Starship Flight 13 mission. SpaceX stacked Ship 40 atop Booster 20 on July 22, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

Update July 23, 4:10 p.m. EDT (2010 UTC): SpaceX waived off a launch attempt due to weather; targeting July 24.

Following its launch in summer 2026, Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle (left) will install Mission Extension Pod (right) jetpacks to extend the lives of client satellites in geosynchronous orbit. MRV also can perform inspection, relocation, repairs, upgrades, and other missions yet to be imagined. Illustration credit: Northrop Grumman

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is sche...