A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California on April 19. The mission featured the 600th landing of a Falcon first stage.
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SpaceX will launch a new GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force early Tuesday morning (April 21), and you can watch the action live.
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Blue Origin, the space launch company founded by Jeff Bezos, achieved a successful recovery of its first reused orbital-class rocket, but the payload it put into space was left in the wrong location.
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Blue Origin’s huge New Glenn rocket launched into space for the third time ever Sunday morning (April 19) — but, in a first for the company, it soared into orbit powered by a previously flown booster.
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Blue Origin conducted a static fire test today (April 16) with a flight-proven New Glenn booster, paving the way for a planned launch on Sunday morning (April 19).
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SpaceX just conducted the first full-duration static fire test with the upper stage of its ‘V3’ Starship, clearing a big hurdle on its path to launch, which is expected next month.
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Northrop Grumman’s second “Cygnus XL” cargo ship launched toward the International Space Station on Saturday morning (April 11).
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A crew of tiny worms will spend six months aboard the International Space Station, helping researchers better understand how long-term spaceflight affects human astronauts.
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Data from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander casts doubt on the decades-old view of the moon as divided between a hotter near side and cooler far side.
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An Atlas V launched 29 of Amazon’s internet satellites — collectively the heaviest load the rocket has ever lofted — on Saturday morning (April 4).
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