Rocket Lab had planned to launch the first two satellites for Europe’s Celeste navigation constellation early Wednesday morning (March 25), but Mother Nature didn’t cooperate.
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Russia’s Progress 94 cargo spacecraft did not deploy one of its docking antennas as planned after launching toward the ISS on Sunday (March 22), complicating plans for its arrival.
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The U.S. Space Force has swapped rockets for an upcoming GPS satellite launch, moving to a SpaceX Falcon 9 while the investigation into an anomaly with ULA’s Vulcan Centaur continues.
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Rocket Lab has inked a $190 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense for 20 launches of the company’s suborbital HASTE rocket.
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NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16.
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Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective to orbit on Friday (March 20).
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SpaceX conducted a static fire test with the first stage of its V3 Starship on Monday (March 16), a milestone moment for this bigger, more powerful megarocket variant.
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SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets on March 17, each carrying Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. The company now has more than 10,000 active satellites in its constellation.
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Blue Origin and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are teaming up to design an asteroid-defense spacecraft that will deploy a variety of deflection technologies.
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Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets carrying Starlink satellites were launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on March 13 and 14, 2026.
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