SpaceX launched NASA’s Pandora exoplanet mission and about three dozen other payloads early Sunday morning (Jan. 11) on a rideshare flight called “Twilight.”
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SpaceX launched 29 Starlink broadband satellites to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast on Friday (Jan. 9), acing its third mission of 2026.
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SpaceX recently stacked the giant Super Heavy booster that will help launch the upcoming 12th test flight of the company’s Starship megarocket.
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Spain’s latest military communications satellite suffered a debris impact while headed to its orbital destination. The extent of the damage is still unknown.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026.
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NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars probes embarked on a ‘loiter’ trajectory after launch, and scientists say that extra time in space could have some consequences for the twin spacecraft.
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SpaceX launched the first mission of 2026 tonight (Jan. 2), sending an Italian Earth-observing satellite to orbit.

“Some will not change behavior until something bad happens.”

Iran has launched a trio of new satellites into space with the help of a Russian rocket, the country’s state media reported Sunday (Dec. 28).
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We saw quite a few milestones notched in the final frontier this year. But there were a number of failures as well, some of them quite dramatic.
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