Launch Log – Spaceflight Now (2024)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, flying in a south-easterly trajectory, touched down on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Nov. 25.

Updated: November 27

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. The first-stage booster, B1080, landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Watch live.

Updated: November 25

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket carried the third batch of five nano-satellites for Kinéis’ Internet of Things (IoT) constellation, which will ultimately consist of 25 satellites. According to Kinéis, “The AIS (Automatic Identification System) is a maritime system for the automatic identification of ships using VHF (Very High Frequency) radio frequencies.” Delayed from Nov. 23 & 24.

Updated: November 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: November 24

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1069, landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: November 21

An uncrewed Progress cargo ship launched atop a Russian Soyuz rocket to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. It is expected to dock with the station at 9:35 a.m. EST (1435 UTC) on November 23.

Updated: November 21

SpaceX launched its sixth, suborbital flight test of its fully integrated Starship rocket, a combination of the Ship upper stage (S31) and the Super Heavy booster (B13). SpaceX set out with a plan to catch the Super Heavy booster using the chopsticks on the launch tower, but waived off the opportunity. Additional testing was performed on the heat shield on S31 and SpaceX completed its first re-ignition of one of the Raptor vacuum engines during the Ship’s coast phase. S31 performed a landing flip and made a gentle splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Delayed from Nov. 18.

Updated: November 19

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the GSAT-N2 (GSAT-20) satellite on behalf of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The communication satellite was launched into a geostationary transfer orbit to continue India’s GSAT (Geosynchronous SATellite) system. The GSAT-N2 satellite is a Ka-band high throughput communication satellite, which has a mission life of 14 years. At liftoff GSAT-N2 has a mass of 4,700 kg (10,362 lbs). A little more than eight minutes, the Falcon 9 first stage booster landed on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: November 18

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster touched down on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: November 18

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a communications satellite called “Optus-X.” This mission has not been publicly announced by Optus, the Australian communications company. Based on regulatory filings this payload will eventually be positioned in geostationary orbit at 87.75 degrees. Nearly nine minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1077, landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: November 17

China launched a Long March-7 Y9 rocket on the Tianzhou-8 cargo resupply mission to the Tiangong space station.

Updated: November 15

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: November 14

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 20 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. Among those, 13 featured Direct to Cell capabilities. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ in the Pacific Ocean. Watch live coverage.

Updated: November 14

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Nov. 10. Watch live.

Updated: November 11

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Koreasat-6A on behalf of KT SAT Corporation Ltd., a satellite provider in South Korea. Koreasat-6A will replace the current Koreasat-6 satellite delivering television broadcasts to South Korea. It will be positioned in geostationary orbit at 116 degrees East. The satellite also includes a navigation payload to enhance existing satellite navigation systems. A little less than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, making its 23rd flight, returned to Florida for a touchdown at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Updated: November 11

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 20 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Nov. 2, 4 and 6.

Updated: November 09

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. Watch Live replay. Delayed from Nov. 3 due to a first stage helium issue. Delayed from Nov. 5. Delayed from Nov. 6.

Updated: November 07

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched a satellite for “a confidential commercial customer.” The mission is described as “Rocket Lab’s fastest turnaround to date: from signed contract to launch date in less than two months.” The payload, the orbit and the timing of deployment were not disclosed at the time the launch was announced. The company has nicknamed the mission ‘Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes’. Delayed by Rocket Lab from Oct. 19 “to perform final checkouts.” Delayed to Nov. 5.

Updated: November 05

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched one of its Cargo Dragon spacecraft to deliver thousands of pounds of science and other supplies to the International Space Station. This was SpaceX’s 31st supply run to the ISS as part of its Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract with NASA. The first stage booster performed a return to landing site (RTLS) landing at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) less than eight minutes after liftoff.

Updated: November 05

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the X-band defense communication satellite-3 onboard the fourth H3 rocket (H3 F4). Delayed from Nov. 2 due to poor weather.

Updated: November 04

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: October 30

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’ Delayed from Oct. 29.

Updated: October 30

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) launched another trio of taikonauts to the Tiangong space station. Commander Cai Xuzhe led the roughly 6.5-hour Shenzhou-19 mission alongside Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze. They will spend about six months on orbit.

Updated: October 30

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster touched down on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions.’

Updated: October 27

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the NROL-167 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The payload is believed to be the next batch of the NRO’s so-called proliferated architecture constellation comprised of Starshield satellites, which are similar to the Starlink satellites. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: October 24

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, 1073, touched down on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Oct. 21. Delayed from Oct. 22 due to poor weather in the recovery zone.

Updated: October 23

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the final batch of OneWeb’s Gen 1 satellites to low Earth orbit. Nearly eight minutes after liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1082, returned for a touchdown at Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4). Launch delayed due to Falcon 9 second stage problem on Crew 9.

Updated: October 20

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Oct. 17.

Updated: October 19

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: October 16

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. This mission marked SpaceX’s first launch of Starlink satellites following the conclusion of the SpaceX-led FAA investigation in the Crew-9 upper stage anomaly.

Updated: October 15

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched NASA’s Europa Clipper to begin its journey to the Galilean moon of the same name. Europa, a moon believed to have a saltwater ocean on its surface, is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons. It’s also the sixth closest to the planet. This Falcon Heavy rocket was flown in a fully expendable configuration, bringing an end to the side boosters, tail numbers B1064 and B1065, after they each flew on five previous Falcon Heavy missions. Delayed from Oct. 10 due to Hurricane Milton.

Updated: October 15

SpaceX launched the fifth flight test of its fully integrated Starship rocket, a combination of the Ship upper stage and the Super Heavy Booster. This flight featured the first planned capture and recovery of the Super Heavy Booster 12 by the chopsticks on the launch tower. The Ship 30 upper stage featured a beefed-up heat shield for reentry. The Ship will perform a landing flip and made a gentle splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

Updated: October 14

SpaceX launched the Hera European Space Agency mission to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by the DART mission in September 2022.

Updated: October 09

The second flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket carried ballast and a collection of small payloads. ULA changed this mission when it became clear the original payload, Sierra Space Dream Chaser cargo ship, would not ready for launch. This second test flight is needed to gain certification from the U.S. military to fly national security payloads. Delayed from September 2024.

Updated: October 06

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Dragon spacecraft carrying a new crew of four to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Following the decision to return the Starliner astronauts aboard the Crew 9 Dragon, the mission was commanded by Nick Hague. He was accompanied aboard the Dragon Freedom by Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov to start a six-month expedition to the station. Delayed from Aug. 18 due to the extension of the Starliner Crew Flight Test mission and delayed from Sept. 24 & 25 for separation between launches from pad 40. Delayed from Sept. 26 due to the potential impacts from future Hurricane Helene.

Updated: September 28

A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., H-2A rocket launched an intelligence-gathering satellite called the Information Gathering Satellite Radar 8 (IGS-Radar 8). Historically, these satellites have launched in pairs, labeled IGS-Optical and IGS-Radar. The IGS-Optical 8 spacecraft launched on Jan. 12, 2024. Delayed from Sept. 16 due to poor weather.

Updated: September 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 20 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster touched down on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: September 25

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the second of five dedicated flights on behalf of French Internet-of-Things company Kinéis. Electron and the Curie upper stage added five more satellites to Kinéis’ planned 25-satellite constellation. It was the 53rd flight of the Electron rocket. The mission is nicknamed “Kinéis Killed the RadIOT Star’. Delayed from Sept. 16/17 due to poor weather. Launch aborted at T-0 on Sept. 18/19 due to ground systems issue.

Updated: September 21

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 20 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. Following stage separation, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: September 20

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two satellites into medium Earth orbit for the European Commission’s Galileo project. The Galileo constellation provides navigation data like the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS). The Falcon 9 first stage booster was recovered on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Sept. 15 and 16 due to recovery weather.

Updated: September 17

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 21 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. Following stage separation, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: September 13

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the first five satellites for AST SpaceMobile’s in-orbit cellular service. Each BlueBird satellite has a communications array measuring 693 square feet. The Falcon 9 booster returned to a landing at Cape Canaveral’s LZ-1.

Updated: September 12

A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket launched a three-man crew to the International Space Station. Crew commander Alexey Ovchinin was joined by fellow cosmonaut Ivan Vagner and NASA astronaut Don Pettit. The Soyuz docked withe the ISS at about 3:33 p.m. EDT (1933 UTC). The spacecraft will remain docked with the orbiting outpost until about April 1, 2025. This will be Pettit’s fourth flight to space.

Updated: September 12

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The Polaris Dawn mission is commanded by billionaire Jared Isaacman, making his second trip to space. He is joined on the all-private mission by pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet, and SpaceX employees Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon. The first stage booster B1083 made its fourth flight and landed on the drone ship “Just Read the Instructions” about nine and a half minutes after launch. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea. Delayed from November and December 2022, March 2023, April 2024, early summer 2024, Aug. 26 and 27. Delayed from Aug. 28 due to poor recovery weather at the end of the planned mission timeline.

Updated: September 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the NROL-113 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). This is the third launch of the NRO’s “proliferated architecture.” Following stage separation, the first stage booster, B1063, touched down on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: September 06

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 21 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, including 13 Direct to Cell satellites, to low Earth orbit. Following stage separation, the first stage booster, B1077, landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Scrubbed Sept. 4 due to recovery weather.

Updated: September 05

Arianespace launched the Sentinel-2C satellite to a Sun-synchronous Earth orbit using its Vega rocket. The mission, dubbed VV24, was the final launch of Vega before the transition to Vega-C is complete. The Sentinel-2C satellite will become part of the European Commission’s Copernicus Earth Observation program, which is co-funded by the European Union and the European Space Agency. Delayed from Sept. 3.

Updated: September 05

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of 21 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will make a landing on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’ Delayed from Aug. 28 due to analysis needed following booster landing failure on the Starlink 8-6 mission.

Updated: August 31

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on theSpaceX droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: August 31

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 21 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster attempted to land on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. However, the booster, B1062, encountered an anomaly and immediately fell over, exploding upon impact.

Updated: August 30

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: August 20

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 116 payloads to a sun-synchronous orbit on the company’s 11th such rideshare mission. Among the payloads are the European Space Agency’s Arctic Weather Satellite, UK-based Surrey Satellites’ Tyche satellite for the UK Space Command, Japan-based iQPS’ QPS-SAR No. 8 satellite and U.S.-based Planet Labs’ Tanager-1 satellite. Delayed from July 10.

Updated: August 16

A Small Satellite Launch Vehicle-D3 (SSLV-D3) rocket launched the eighth Earth Observation Satellite for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The satellite carries three payloads onboard: Electro Optical Infrared Payload (EOIR), Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry payload (GNSS-R), and SiC UV Dosimeter. The EOS-08 spacecraft will operate in a circular low Earth orbit at an altitude of 475 km (295 mi.) at an inclination of 37.4 degrees. It’s designed to operate for one year.

Updated: August 16

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the second pair of WorldView Legion Earth observation satellites for Maxar Technologies. Maxar plans to deploy six commercial WorldView Legion high-resolution remote sensing satellites into a mix of sun-synchronous and mid-inclination orbits on three SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.

Updated: August 15

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’. Delayed from August 10. Delayed from August 11, following scrub call 46 seconds prior to liftoff.

Updated: August 12

An uncrewed Progress spacecraft launched atop a Soyuz rocket to begin its journey to the International Space Station. It will take about two days before it reaches the space station. The spacecraft will autonomously dock to the aft port of the Zvezda service module at 1:56 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 17.

Updated: August 15

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission, consisting of two satellites owned by Space Norway. The Falcon 9 launched the two Northrop Grumman-built satellites into a highly elliptical orbit that lingers over the Arctic region. The satellites carry communications payloads for the Norwegian Ministry of Defense, the U.S. Space Force, and Inmarsat. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, B1061, landed on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: August 12

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the Acadia 3 satellite for Capella Space, a commercial provider of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery data. The satellite was deployed into a 615km circular orbit. The mission has been named “A Sky Full Of SARs” by Rocket Lab. Delayed from July at request of Capella Space.

Updated: August 14

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 21 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on a SpaceX droneship. Delayed from Aug. 9.

Updated: August 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo freighter to the International Space Station. The mission is designated as NG-21. The launch vehicle for Cygnus missions was changed from Northrop Grumman’s own Antares 230+ rocket to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended engine and booster production for the Antares program. The Falcon 9 first stage returned to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station about seven-and-a-half minutes after liftoff. Delayed from Aug. 3 due to poor weather.

Updated: August 04

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch 23 of Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: August 04

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched a StriX synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite on behalf of the Japanese Earth observation company, Synspective. Following the deployment of the satellite, Rocket Lab said the rocket’s kick stage “will perform an advanced mid-mission maneuver… to shield the satellite from the sun and reduce radiation exposure.” Delayed from July 30/31 due to poor weather.

Updated: August 03

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. Following stage separation, the booster returned to a landing on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: August 02

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, designated AV-101, launched the USSF 51 mission for the U.S. Space Force. This mission launched an undisclosed payload for the military. This is a 551 version the Atlas 5 vehicle, the most powerful model equipped with five strap-on solid rocket boosters. The launch window was three hours long.

Updated: July 30

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 21 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit. Of those, 13 will feature the direct to cell capability. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, B1071, landed on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: July 28

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starklink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. Following stage separation, the booster landed on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. Launch delayed from July 14 in wake of Starlink 9-3 failure.

Updated: July 28

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. Following stage separation, the booster landed on a droneship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Launch delayed multiple times in wake of Starlink 9-3 failure.

Updated: July 27

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’ Delayed from July 10.

Updated: July 12

Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch an Ariane 6 rocket on its inaugural flight from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket will carry two reentry capsules along with several other satellites, which will be deployed over three separate periods. Following satellite deployment, the upper stage will perform a deorbit burn to help prevent it from becoming orbital debris.

Updated: July 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Türksat 6A communications satellite for the Turkish operator, Türksat. Türksat 6A is the first geostationary communications satellite to be built in Turkey, with development led by TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute and Turkish Aerospace Industries. It will operate at the 42° East orbital position. Delayed from 2nd Quarter 2023 and March 2024.

Updated: July 09

A Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket launched a collection of eight CubeSats as part of NASA’s ELaNA 43 (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites 43) mission. Also nicknamed ‘Noise of Summer’ by Firefly, this will be the fifth launch of an Alpha rocket to date. The launch is part of the company’s Venture-Class Launch Services Demo 2 contract with NASA. Delayed from June 27, July 2 and July 3.

Updated: July 04

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 20 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean, north east of Cape Canaveral.

Updated: July 03

The Japanese Exploration Aerospace Agency (JAXA) launched the third flight of its H3 Launch Vehicle. The mission, H3 F3: Flight No. 3, launched the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 “DAICHI-4” (ALOS-4). This Earth observation satellite is manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will use a phased array type L-band synthetic aperture radar (PALSAR-3) and is designed to operate for seven years or orbit.

Updated: July 01

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the NROL-186 mission on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office. The agency stated that this will be the second launch supporting it’s “proliferated architecture, delivering critical space-based [intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance] to the nation.” A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the booster landed on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: June 29

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, B1062 in the SpaceX fleet, landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the 22nd launch for B1062, making it the flight leader among SpaceX Falcon boosters.

Updated: June 27

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched the fourth and final satellite of the next-generation series of geostationary weather satellites for NASA and NOAA. GOES-U will orbit 22,300 miles above the equator to monitor weather conditions across the United States. The satellite will be renamed GOES-19 once it reaches its operational orbit. Delayed from April 30 and May.

Updated: June 25

A Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 20 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, including 13 featuring Direct to Cell capabilities, to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, B1075, landed on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: June 24

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of 22 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will land on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ out in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from June 12. Delayed from June 13 due to the weather. Delayed from June 14 due to T-0 abort.

Updated: June 23

A Chinese Long March 2C rocket launched the Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) spacecraft. The satellite is a dual Franco-Chinese mission, which is “dedicated to the study of the most distant explosions of stars, the gamma-ray bursts.” There are four main instruments on board, two of which are French and two which are Chinese. The spacecraft launched to a 625-km Earth orbit and will operate for at least three years with an option to extend for another two years beyond that. Delayed from late 2023.

Updated: June 23

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Astra 1P, a wide-beam satellite, into geostationary Earth orbit for Luxembourg-based SES. The Ku-band satellite, also known as SES-24, will operate at the 19.2° East position. It’s designed to provide television transmission services for about 119 million homes across Europe, specifically in France, Germany and Spain. Following stage separation, the Falcon 9 first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions.’ Delayed from June 18 and 19 due to poor weather.

Updated: June 20

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the “No Time Toulouse” mission, the first of five dedicated flights on behalf of Kinéis, a French Internet-of-Things company, which also has financial backing from France’s space agency, CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales). The rocket will carry the first five Internet-of-Things (IOT) satellites of a 25-satellite constellation. Delayed from June 19 due to weather.

Updated: June 20

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. More than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’ Delayed from June 13.

Updated: June 19

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: June 08

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 22 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, B1069, landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’

Updated: June 08

SpaceX conducted a fourth flight test of its fully integrated Starship rocket, a combination of the Ship upper stage and the Super Heavy Booster. About seven minutes after liftoff, the SHB completed its landing burn and splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The Ship upper stage continued on until it performs a landing flip a little more than an hour into flight with a landing in the Indian Ocean shortly thereafter.

Updated: June 06

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, designated AV-085, will launch Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on its first mission with astronauts, known as the Crew Test Flight, to the International Space Station. The capsule will dock with the space station, then return to Earth to landing in the Western United States. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will fly on the mission. The rocket will fly in a vehicle configuration with two solid rocket boosters and a dual-engine Centaur upper stage. Delayed from August and 1st Quarter of 2020. Delayed from mid-2020 after Boeing decision to refly the Orbital Flight Test. Delayed from early 2021, June 2021, and late 2021. Delayed from late 2022 to implement fixes on the Starliner spacecraft after OFT-2. Delayed from April 2023, July 2023, April 2024, May 6, 10, 17, 21, 25 and June 1.

Updated: June 05

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the second of a pair of NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) CubeSats. These satellites will study the heat trapped in and lost by the polar regions of the Earth. Delayed from May 31 due to a sensor issue.

Updated: June 07

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 20 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. The first-stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: June 05

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. The first-stage booster touched down on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: June 01

A Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket launched the Progress MS-27 spacecraft to the International Space Station. This was the 88th Progress vehicle to head up to the orbiting outpost. The spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the ISS at 7:53 a.m. EDT on June 1.

Updated: May 30

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite to a sun-synchronous polar orbit at 393.14 km altitude and an inclination of 97.05°. This is principally a European Space Agency (ESA) mission, but it was developed with cooperation with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It includes two passive instruments that observe the atmosphere and two active instruments. The spacecraft has a designed lifetime of three years, which includes a six-month commissioning phase.

Updated: May 28

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster touched down on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from May 27.

Updated: May 28

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the first of two back-to-back missions for NASA’s Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) project. The PREFIRE-1 satellite deployed to a 525 km circular Earth orbit at a 97.5° inclination, and will be shortly followed by PREFIRE-2. Delayed from May 22 due to weather.

Updated: May 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster touched down on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: May 24

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. About eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster touched down on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: May 23

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the NROL-146 mission on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). According to Dr. Troy Meink, the NRO principal deputy director, this was the first launch for the agency’s proliferated architecture, which focuses on space-based ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance). Reuters was the first to report that these satellites were built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman under a classified $1.8 billion contract. Delayed from May 19 and 21.

Updated: May 22

A Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’

Updated: May 18

A Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome sending the Kosmos-2576 Russian military satellite to a 436 x 451 km sun-synchronous orbit at a 97.3° inclination.

Updated: May 17

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 20 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: May 14

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 23 second-generation Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. About 8.25 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ out in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: May 13

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit. Following stage separation, the first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.” Delayed from May 8.

Updated: May 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. The first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: May 08

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launched 23 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. The first stage booster will be recovered on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: May 07

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, B1067, landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ out in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the 19th flight for this booster.

Updated: May 03

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the first pair of WorldView Legion Earth observation satellites for Maxar Technologies. Maxar plans to deploy six commercial WorldView Legion high-resolution remote sensing satellites into a mix of sun-synchronous and mid-inclination orbits on three SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets. The first stage of the Falcon 9 returned to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base for landing. Delayed from April, June 2023, April 17 & 24, 2024.

Updated: May 02

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 23 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1076 in the SpaceX fleet, landed on the droneship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ out in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the 13th flight for this booster.

Updated: April 28

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission to medium Earth orbit. This is part of its Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). The constellation, which now consists of 28 satellites, began operation in 2016. The Falcon 9 first stage booster was expended after its 20th and final flight, but the two payload fairing halves were recovered. This was the 200th launch using flight-proven payload fairings, according to SpaceX.

Updated: April 28

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched a pair of satellites on behalf of both NASA and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). KAIST’s NEONSAT-1 is the primary payload and is described as “an Earth observation satellite with a high-resolution optical camera designed to monitor for natural disasters along the Korean Peninsula by pairing its images with artificial intelligence.” Additional NEOSAT satellites will be launched n 2026 and 2027. NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is the secondary payload. It’s a technology demonstration that is geared to show off materials that can be used for solar sail propulsion. NASA “plans to test the deployment of new composite booms that will unfurl the solar sail to measure approximately 30 feet per side, or about the size of a small apartment in total. Flight data obtained during the demonstration will be used for designing future larger-scale composite solar sail systems for space weather early warning satellites, asteroid and other small body reconnaissance missions, and missions to observe the polar regions of the sun.”

Updated: April 23

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. Delayed from April 22.

Updated: April 23

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic Ocean about 8.5 minutes after liftoff.

Updated: April 18

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean about 8.5 minutes after liftoff.

Updated: April 18

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster, B1062, will return to the droneship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic Ocean about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. This will be the first time a booster launches for a 20th time.

Updated: April 13

A SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket launched the USSF-62 mission for the Space Force. The payload is the first Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) satellite heading for a sun-synchronous orbit. The first stage booster returned to Vandenberg’s Landing Zone 4.

Updated: April 11

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster touched down on the droneship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ in the Atlantic Ocean about 8.5 minutes after liftoff.

Updated: April 10

A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket launched a classified spy satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The largest of the Delta 4 family, the Heavy version features three Common Booster Cores mounted together to form a triple-body rocket. This was the final flight of a Delta 4 rocket. Delayed from March 28.

Updated: April 09

The first of SpaceX’s Bandwagon ride-share missions, targeting a low Earth orbit with an inclination of approximately 45.4 degrees. There were 11 spacecraft onboard the Falcon 9. The booster returned for a touchdown at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station about 7.5 minutes after liftoff.

Updated: April 07

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 21 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean a little more than eight minutes after liftoff. The mission featured the launch of the next six Starlink satellites that include Direct to Cell capabilities. Delayed from April 5.

Updated: April 07

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean about 8.5 minutes after liftoff.

Updated: April 05

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 22 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from March 28, 29 and 30.

Updated: April 02

Roscosmos launched a Soyuz 2.1b rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Onboard was the Resurs-P No. 4, the fourth in a series of Earth observing, remote sensing satellites.

Updated: March 31

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean about 8.5 minutes after liftoff.

Updated: March 31

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with the Eutelsat-36D satellite onboard for its customer, Eutelsat Communications. Built by Airbus, the satellite is designed to replace the Eutelsat 36B satellite at its orbital position of 36° East. It will work in tandem with Eutelsat 36C to help deliver “over 1,100 TV channels to millions of homes” in the regions of Africa and Eurasia, according to Eutelsat. The satellite is based on Airbus’ Eurostar Neo platform and features 70 Ku-band transponders.

Updated: March 30

A Long March 6A rocket launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in China with Yunhai-3-02 military weather satellites onboard.

Updated: March 27

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘A Short Fall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on the droneship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from March 22.

Updated: March 24

A Russian government Soyuz rocket launched the crewed Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft to the International Space Station. The mission carried Russian commander Oleg Novitsky, Belarusian flight engineer Marina Vasilevskaya, and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson into orbit on a flight on the space station. The rocket flew in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration. The Soyuz will dock at the Prichal module two days after liftoff. On its return trip, it will bring back Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub. Scrubbed on March 21

Updated: March 23

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Dragon 2 spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed back at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The flight is the 30th mission by SpaceX conducted under a Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. It was also the first launch of a second-generation Dragon to the space station lifting off from SCL-40.

Updated: March 22

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched its first mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from Launch Complex 2 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The NROL-123 mission, also known as ‘Live and Let Fly,’ was booked as part of the NRO’s Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract. It launched a classified payload to orbit. Delayed from March 20.

Updated: March 22

China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation (CASC) launched the Queqiao-2 relay satellite onboard a Long March 8 (ChanZheng-8 Y3 S) rocket. The satellite will travel to a highly elliptical, frozen lunar orbit at an inclination of 55 degrees. Once in orbit, it will help support lunar missions beginning with Chang’e-6. In addition to the primary payload, there will be two small, rideshare satellites called Tiandu-1 and Tiandu-2.

Updated: March 20

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. The payload fairings were recovered by the recovery vessel, ‘Doug.’ Delayed from March 13 and 14.

Updated: March 16

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: March 27

A SpaceX Super Heavy booster and Starship vehicle made a third fully-integrated test flight during a 110-minute launch window. The plan was for the Starship to achieve near-orbital before reentering the atmosphere and splashing down in the Indian Ocean. The Super Heavy booster targeted a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The Starship vehicle was lost during reentry and the booster did not make a soft splashdown.

Updated: March 16

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch a dedicated mission for Japan Earth-imaging satellite company, Synspective. The launch of the StriX-3 satellite is the fourth launch in a multi-launch agreement following ‘The Owls’ Night Begins’ in December 2020, ‘The Owl’s Night Continues’ in February 2022 and ‘The Owl Spreads its Wings’ in September 2022. This will be Rocket Lab’s third Electron launch of 2024 and its 45th to date. Delayed from March 10.

Updated: March 12

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: March 27

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: March 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: March 05

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter 10 mission, a rideshare flight to a low-Earth orbit with 53 small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. The first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) about 7.5 minutes after launch.

Updated: March 05

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft on the program’s 13th flight with astronauts. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will return to land at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin launched on the Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft to begin a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea off the coast of Florida. Delayed from Feb. 22, 28, Mar. 1 and 2.

Updated: March 04

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: February 29

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 24 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 24.

Updated: February 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 21.

Updated: February 23

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a telecommunications satellite for Indonesian company, PT Telkom Satelit Indonesia (Telkomsat), a subsidiary of a state-owned telecommunication company, during a two-hour launch window. The satellite will operate at 113° East. The satellite was built on Thales Alenia Space’s Spacebus 4000B2 platform. The first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ about 8.5 minutes after liftoff.

Updated: February 20

An Indian Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk. 2 rocket, designated GSLV-F14, launched the INSAT-3DS satellite for the country’s Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES). This geostationary meteorological satellite will support the previously launched INSAT-3D and INSAT3DR satellites. The 2275 kg INSAT-3DS satellite is based off of the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) I-2k satellite bus.

Updated: February 18

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a second test flight of its H3 rocket following a failure with the second stage engine in March 2023. The mission is dubbed H3/TF2 (Test Flight No. 2). The flight featured the Vehicle Evaluation Payload-4 (VEP-4) for purposes of the demonstration. JAXA stated in December 2023 that it “will capitalize on the excess launch capability of the H3TF2 by providing launch and orbit insertion opportunities for two small secondary payloads (piggyback payloads), CE-SAT-IE and TIRSAT.” Delayed from Feb. 15 due to poor weather.

Updated: February 17

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 14.

Updated: February 16

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the IM-1 mission with the Nova-C lander built and owned by Intuitive Machines. The IM-1 mission will attempt to deliver a suite of science payloads to the surface of the moon for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. The Falcon 9 first-stage booster will land back at Cape Canaveral. Delayed from 3rd Quarter of 2022, December 2022, January 2023, March 2023, June 2023, November 2023, January 2024 and February 14.

Updated: February 15

A Russian government Soyuz rocket launched the 87th Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station. This mission used a rocket in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration.

Updated: February 16

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a mission for the U.S. Space Force and Missile Defense Agency. This mission was part of the third order year of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) contracts for SpaceX. The Falcon 9 first-stage booster landed back at Cape Canaveral.

Updated: February 14

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 3 and 5-8.

Updated: February 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. The spacecraft is equipped with instruments to assess the health of the oceans by measuring the distribution of phytoplankton, tiny plants and algae. The Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number 1081, landed back at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Delayed from Feb. 6 and 7 due to poor weather.

Updated: February 08

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched four LEMUR SSA (space situational awareness) satellites on behalf of Spire Global Inc. and its customer NorthStar Earth & Space. The satellites launched to an inclination of 97 degrees. This was the 43rd Electron launch to date. Rocket Lab said it successfully recovered the first stage booster following stage separation. Delayed from Jan. 18 and 28.

Updated: January 31

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Northrop Grumman’s 21st Cygnus cargo freighter on the 20th operational cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station. The mission is known as NG-20. The launch vehicle for this mission was changed from Northrop Grumman’s own Antares 230+ rocket to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended engine and booster production for the Antares program. The Falcon 9 first stage booster, B1077, landed back at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Delayed from October. Delayed from Jan. 29.

Updated: January 31

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: January 30

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: January 29

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean. This will be the 16th flight for the first stage booster, tail number B1063. Delayed from Jan. 18, 19, 20 and 21. Read more.

Updated: January 24

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft on the program’s 13th flight with astronauts. The commercial mission, managed by Axiom Space, is commanded by former NASA astronaut, Michael López-Alegría. Three passengers, Walter Villadei, Alper Gezeravci and Marcus Wandt, will fly on this two-week commercial mission to the International Space Station. The first stage booster will return to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Delayed from Jan. 17.

Updated: January 24

A Chinese Long March 7 rocket launched the Tianzhou-7 resupply ship to dock with the Tiangong Space Station. The automated cargo craft was the sixth resupply freighter for the Chinese space station. The cargo included about 90 kg of fresh fruit, according to CGTN.

Updated: January 19

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Jan. 13.

Updated: January 15

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean. This was the 18th flight for the first stage booster, tail number B1061. Delayed from Dec. 9, Dec. 11, 12 and 13.

Updated: January 14

The eighth Intelligence Gathering Satellite-Optical (IGS Optical 8) launched on behalf of Japan’s government onboard a H-2A 202, designated H-2A F48 (flight 48). The mission launched from Launch Pad 1 (LA-Y1) at the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The satellite will head into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 500 km and an inclination of about 97.5 degrees. Delayed from Jan. 11 locally (Jan. 10 in UTC).

Updated: January 15

A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket launched on its inaugural flight with the Peregrine commercial lunar lander for Astrobotic. The Peregrine robotic lander carried multiple experiments, scientific instruments, and tech demo payloads for NASA and other customers. The Vulcan Centaur rocket flew in the VC2S configuration with two GEM-63XL solid rocket boosters, a standard-length payload fairing, and two RL10C-1-1A engines on the Centaur 5 upper stage. Delayed from mid-2022 and late 2022. Delayed from 1st Quarter 2023, May 4 and Dec. 24.

Updated: January 08

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: January 08

A Falcon 9 launched a much delayed small geostationary satellite for the Swedish broadband internet provider Ovzon. Originally scheduled to launch on an Ariane 5, the satellite was moved to Falcon 9 due to delayed in manufacturing. Delayed from summer 2023. Delayed from Dec. 15, 16 & 17.

Updated: January 03

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch 21 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The mission included six satellites equipped to provide cellphone coverage. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Dec. 14, 15, 28 and 30.

Updated: January 03

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched the first orbital mission of 2024 using a PSLV-DL rocket. The PSLV-C58/XPosSat mission launched of the X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat), described as “India’s first dedicated polarimetry mission to study various dynamics of bright, astronomical X-ray sources in extreme conditions.” Also onboard was the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module-3 (POEM-3), which hosts 10 additional payloads added by both ISRO and the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center (IN-SPACe).

Updated: January 02

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: December 29

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the USSF 52 mission for the U.S. Space Force. The Falcon Heavy launched the experimental X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on this mission. This was the seventh flight of this spacecraft on a mission also known as OTV-7. This was the first launch of an X-37B using a Falcon Heavy rocket. Delayed from October 2021 and 2nd Quarter 2022. Delayed from October 2022 and June 23, delayed from July 6, Dec 7, 10, 11 and 12.

Updated: December 29

A SpaceX Falcon 9 will launched two satellites with passive synthetic aperture radar reflectors for the German military. The first stage booster making its eighth flight returned to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg. Delayed from Dec. 22.

Updated: December 24

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: December 23

Firefly Aerospace will launch its Alpha rocket on the FTLA004 mission dubbed ‘Fly the Lightning.’ This will be the fourth launch to date of the orbital class rocket. This is a dedicated mission for customer Lockheed Martin. The company will deploy a new wideband Electronically Steerable Antenna (ESA) technology integrated on a Terran Orbital Nebula satellite bus. Delayed from Dec. 20.

Updated: December 22

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Dec. 10 & 11. Delayed from Dec. 12 due to strong, ground-level winds. Delayed from Dec. 13 due to poor weather in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: December 19

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the QPS-SAR-5, also known as ‘TSUKUYOMI-I’, for the Japan-based Earth-imaging company the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS). This was the 42nd flight of the Electron rocket and the first since a launch failure in September. Rocket Lab has nicknamed the mission ‘The Moon God Awakens’.

Updated: December 15

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: December 08

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ in the Atlantic Ocean. The recovery vessel ‘Bob’ scooped up the fairing halves following the launch.

Updated: December 07

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic Ocean. The recovery vessel, ‘Doug,’ was used to scoop up the fairing halves following the launch.

Updated: December 03

A Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket launched the 425 Project EO/IR satellite 1 reconnaissance satellite for South Korea and 24 other spacecraft. The South Korean satellite is the first of five missions planned by the country’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) for a program known as the ‘425 Project’. This first mission is an optical/infra-red imaging satellite. The four missions to follow will feature synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Also onboard is EIRSAT-1, Ireland’s first satellite, a 2U cubesat which was funded by the Education Office of the European Space Agency. Other payloads include: Space BD’s ISL48, SITAEL’s uHETSat, D-Orbit’s ION SCV Daring Diego, York Space Systems’ Bane, and PlanetIQ’s GNOMES-4. The Falcon 9 first-stage booster returned to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg. Delayed from Nov. 29.

Updated: December 01

A Russian government Soyuz rocket launched the 86th Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station. This mission used a rocket in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration.

Updated: December 01

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: November 28

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: November 24

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another 22 Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean. Launch attempt targeting 1054 UTC on Nov. 19 scrubbed.

Updated: December 05

A SpaceX Super Heavy booster and Starship vehicle will make a second fully-integrated test flight. The plan is for the Starship to achieve near-orbital velocity mission to travel around the world for nearly one full orbit. Starship will then reenter the atmosphere and splashdown near Hawaii. The Super Heavy booster will target a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. There is a 20-minute launch window on Saturday.

Updated: November 19

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: November 18

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the third pair of O3b mPOWER broadband internet satellites into Medium Earth Orbit for SES of Luxembourg. The satellites, built by Boeing, will provide internet services over most of the populated world, building on SES’s O3b network. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from March, June 9 and Aug. 27.

Updated: November 12

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter 9 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with 90 small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Delayed from Nov. 9.

Updated: November 12

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Dragon 2 spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed back at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The flight is the 29th mission by SpaceX conducted under a Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Delayed from Nov. 1. Delayed from Nov. 3, 5 & 7.

Updated: November 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster was recovered on the drone ship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: November 08

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster was recovered on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the 18th flight of this booster, B1058.

Updated: November 04

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster was recovered on the drone ship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Scrubbed during Oct. 29 launch attempt.

Updated: October 30

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: November 14

A three-member crew will launched to the Tiangong Space Station on the Shenzhou 17 mission aboard a Long March 2F Improved (CZ-2F/G Y17) rocket.

Updated: October 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 23 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: October 22

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 21 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: October 21

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship, Just Read the Instructions, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: October 18

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Oct. 8 by upper level winds.

Updated: October 13

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission. The Maxar-built spacecraft will travel to the metallic asteroid Psyche, where it will enter orbit in 2029. This is the first spacecraft to explore a metal-rich asteroid, which may be the leftover core of a protoplanet that began forming in the early solar system more than 4 billion years ago. The Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters returned to Landing Zones 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for recovery. The center core was expended. Delayed from 2022 due to payload software issues. Moved forward from Oct. 10, 2023. Delayed from Oct. 5. Delayed from Oct. 12 due to weather.

Updated: October 13

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 21 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: October 09

Arianespace will launch a Vega rocket, designated VV23, sending a collection of 12 satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit. The main payload is the THailand Earth Observation System-2 (THEOS-2), which is an Earth-observing satellite built by Airbus Defense and Space on behalf of the Kingdom of Thailand. It’s designed to complement THEOS-1, which launched in 20008. The secondary payload is FORMOSAT-7R/TRITON, which was developed by the Taiwanese Space Agency (TASA). Its Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) tool will help meteorologists gather wind data over oceans to help with forecasting the trajectory and intensity of typhoons. Delayed from Oct. 6/7.

Updated: October 09

The first two demonstration satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband constellation launched on an Atlas 5 501 rocket. These satellites were originally scheduled to fly on the first Vulcan rocket.

Updated: October 06

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship “Just Read the Instructions” in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: October 05

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: September 30

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 21 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: October 06

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship “Just Read the Instructions” in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the 17th launch and landing for the booster tail number 1060.

Updated: September 24

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic Ocean. The first stage booster, designated B1060, is now the first to fly for a 17th time.

Updated: September 20

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket lifted off with a next-generation Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth-imaging satellites called “Acadia” for Capella Space. it was the second of four planned satellites in this series. The mission was dubbed “We Will Never Desert You”. A launch failure occurred about two and a half minutes into flight. Read more.

Updated: September 19

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship “Just Read the Instructions” in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from early morning Sept. 15. Watch live coverage.

Updated: September 16

A Russian government Soyuz rocket launched the crewed Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft to the International Space Station. The mission carried Russian commander Oleg Kononenko, Russian flight engineer Nikolai Chub, and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara into orbit for a long-duration flight on the space station. The rocket flew in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration.

Updated: September 15

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: September 12

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launched the NROL-107 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. The NROL-107 mission launched a classified payload known as Silentbarker. The mission is a partnership between the NRO and the U.S. Space Force, which have disclosed little information about the payload other than it will focus on satellite threat intelligence and space situational awareness. Delayed from Aug. 29 due to Hurricane Idalia. Delayed from Sept. 9 due to technical issue.

Updated: September 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: September 09

A Japanese H-2A rocket, designated H-2A F47, launched the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, or XRISM, a joint project between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and NASA. XRISM is a replacement for the Hitomi X-ray astrophysics observatory, which failed about one month after launch in 2016. XRISM will perform high-resolution X-ray spectroscopic observations of the hot gas plasma wind that blows through the galaxies in the universe. These observations will enable us to determine flows of mass and energy, revealing the composition and evolution of celestial objects. JAXA’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, mission will fly as a rideshare on this launch, heading to the moon to test precision landing technology. The H-2A rocket will fly in the 202 configuration with two strap-on solid rocket boosters. Delayed from 2nd Quarter after H3 launch failure. Delayed from Aug. 27 and 28.

Updated: September 07

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of 21 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship, Just Read the Instructions, in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the record-breaking 62nd launch of the year for SpaceX, beating the company’s previous record of 61 orbital launches for all of 2022.

Updated: September 04

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 13 Tranche 0 demonstration satellites for the U.S. military’s Space Development Agency. The launch is the second of two Falcon 9 missions to carry SDA demonstration spacecraft for a future constellation of military missile tracking and data relay satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg. Delayed from June. Launched delayed from Aug. 31 due to an engine issue on the Falcon 9 rocket and delayed from Sept. 1.

Updated: September 02

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) used its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-XL), designated PSLV-C57, to launch the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, marking India’s first, space-based mission to study the Sun. The spacecraft will operated in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is roughly 1.5 million km away. Aditya-L1 will study solar flares, space weather and coronal heating.

Updated: September 02

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: September 01

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Aug. 22.

Updated: August 27

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft on the program’s 11th flight with astronauts. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to land at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov will launch on the Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, to begin a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea. Delayed from Aug. 15, 17, 21 and 25.

Updated: August 26

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the first of Capella Space’s next-generation Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth-imaging satellites called “Acadia.” This will be the first launch of these four, new satellites. The mission is dubbed “We Love the Nightlife” since the SAR satellites allow for high-resolution imagery a night. Delayed from July 28. Launch aborted on July 30. Delayed from Aug. 4 and 6.

Updated: August 24

A Russian government Soyuz rocket launched the 85th Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station. The rocket flew in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration.

Updated: August 23

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You, in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Aug. 17 and 18.

Updated: August 22

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: August 17

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: August 11

A Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket launched Russia’s first mission to the Moon since 1976. The robotic lander is supposed to touchdown north of Boguslawsky crater near the south pole of the Moon. Luna-25 has eight scientific instruments on board including a mechanical arm and bucket that can scoop up lunar regolith.

Updated: August 11

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You, in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: August 09

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: August 07

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Galaxy 37 C-band television broadcasting satellite for Intelsat. The spacecraft was built by Maxar. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from 2nd Quarter.

Updated: August 03

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched the 20th Cygnus cargo freighter on the 19th operational cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station. The mission is known as NG-19. The rocket flew in the Antares 230+ configuration, with two RD-181 first stage engines and a Castor 30XL second stage. This was the final flight of an Antares 230+ rocket before a redesign with new U.S.-made engines. Delayed from March, April 21, May, and July.

Updated: August 02

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 broadband communications satellite. Built by Maxar, Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 is a Ka-band high-throughput ultra high density satellite for EchoStar’s Hughes Network Systems. Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 will support in-flight WiFi, maritime connections, enterprise networks, backhaul for mobile network operators, and community WiFi solutions across the Americas. Delayed from May. Moved up from August. Delayed from July 23, 26 and 27.

Updated: July 29

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: July 28

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from July 22 due to weather.

Updated: July 24

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on the drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You, in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: July 20

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched NASA’s Starling mission, which consists of four cubsats to demonstrate technologies for future ‘swarm’ satellites. It will also carry Telesat’s LEO 3 demonstration satellite for Space Flight Laboratory and two 3U satellites for Spire Global, carrying Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) payloads which provide data to improve weather models and forecasts. The first stage of the Electron rocket was recovered after it splashes down in the ocean. Delayed from July 14.

Updated: July 18

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the final batch of Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from July 14.

Updated: July 16

The Indian Space Research Organization launched a Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) rocket from the Second Launch Pad at SDSC-SHAR in Sriharikota, India. The primary payload was the Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander, the third mission to the Moon for India. It also includes secondary payloads specifically for the lander (RAMBHA-Lunar Probe; ChaSTE, Chandra’s Surface Thermo-physical Experiment and ISLA, Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity) as well as rover payloads (APXS, Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer; and LIBS, Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope). This mission was the fourth operational mission for the LVM3 rocket.

Updated: July 14

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: July 11

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: July 07

Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, designated VA260, launched the Syracuse 4B and Heinrich Hertz communications satellites. Syracuse 4B, built by Airbus, will relay secure communications between French military aircraft, ground vehicles, and naval vessels, including submarines. The Heinrich Hertz satellite, built by OHB, will test new communications technologies on a mission funded by the German government. This will be the final launch of an Ariane 5 rocket. Delayed from February due to problems completing the Heinrich Hertz satellite. Moved forward from June 21. Delayed from June 16. Delayed from July 4 due to upper level winds.

Updated: July 06

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Euclid mission for the European Space Agency. Euclid is an astrophysics mission with a telescope and two scientific instruments designed to explore the evolution of the dark universe. It will make a 3D-map of the universe by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. Euclid will be launched to an observing orbit at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point. The mission was originally supposed to launch on a Russian Soyuz rocket. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: July 01

A Soyuz rocket launched a Russian civilian weather satellite into polar orbit. The Soyuz employed a new version of the Fregat-M upper stage.

Updated: June 27

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: June 24

A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket launched a classified spy satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The largest of the Delta 4 family, the Heavy version features three Common Booster Cores mounted together to form a triple-body rocket. This is the penultimate flight of a Delta 4 rocket. Delayed from March and April 20. Scrubbed June 21 due to ground pneumatic valve issue. Read our launch story.

Updated: June 23

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 47 Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: June 23

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Satria communications satellite for the Indonesian government and the Indonesian satellite operator PSN. The Satria satellite will provide broadband internet and communications capacity for schools, hospitals, and other public use facilities in Indonesia’s rural regions. The satellite was built by Thales Alenia Space, and is based on the Spacebus Neo platform.The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Moved forward from June 19.

Updated: June 20

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter 8 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with numerous small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Launch site changed from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to Vandenberg Space Force Base. Delayed from June 8.

Updated: June 13

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 52 Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from June 9, June 10, and June 12. Read our full story.

Updated: June 12

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Dragon 2 spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The flight was the 28th mission by SpaceX conducted under a Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Delayed from June 3. Scrubbed June 4 due to high winds in the booster recovery area.

Updated: June 06

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Moved forward from June 3. Delayed from May 30 and June 1. Read our full story.

Updated: June 04

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 52 Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Read our full story.

Updated: June 02

A Chinese Long March 2F rocket launched the Shenzhou 16 spacecraft with three Chinese astronauts to rendezvous and dock with the Chinese space station in low Earth orbit. This is China’s 11th crewed space mission, and the fifth to the Chinese space station. The mission is commanded by Jing Haipeng, the spaceflight engineer is Zhu Yangzhu, and the payload specialist is Gui Haichao. Read our full story.

Updated: May 31

An Indian Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. 2 rocket, designated GSLV-F12, launched the NVS 01 navigation satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, also called Navigation with Indian Constellation, or NavIC. The spacecraft is also known as IRNSS 1J, and is the first in a second-generation fleet of Indian navigation satellites. Read our full story.

Updated: May 31

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Badr 8 communications satellite for Arabsat based in Saudi Arabia. From geostationary orbit, Badr 8 will provide communications coverage for Arabsat customers over Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Badr 8 also hosts an optical communications payload developed by Airbus. The spacecraft was built by Airbus, and is based on the Eurostar Neo platform. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from May 21. Scrubbed on May 23 by bad weather. Delayed from May 24.

Updated: May 28

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the third pair of small CubeSats for NASA’s TROPICS mission. The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats, or TROPICS, mission will measure environmental and inner-core conditions for tropical cyclones. These two satellites were originally contracted to launch on Astra’s Rocket 3 vehicle. This mission was nicknamed “Coming To A Storm Near You” by Rocket Lab. Delayed from May 15, May 22, and May 24. Read our full story.

Updated: May 26

A Russian government Soyuz rocket launched the 84th Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station. The rocket flew in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration. Read our full story.

Updated: May 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on the program’s 10th flight with astronauts. The commercial mission, managed by Axiom Space, is commanded by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. Paying passenger John Shoffner will serve as pilot of the mission. Two commercial space fliers from Saudi Arabia, Ali AlQarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, will also be on the approximately 12-day mission to the space station. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea off the coast of Florida. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will return to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral. Delayed from May 8 as result of delays in previous Falcon Heavy launch.

Updated: May 22

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 15 spare satellites for OneWeb’s first-generation global internet network and one prototype for OneWeb’s Gen2 second-generation network. Five spare satellites for Iridium’s voice and data relay fleet also launched on this mission. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from May 19. See our Mission Status Center.

Updated: May 21

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from April and May 18. Read our full story.

Updated: May 21

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 56 Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from April. Read our full story.

Updated: May 14

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites. This mission deployed 51 Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from April. Read our full story.

Updated: May 11

A Chinese Long March 7 rocket launched the Tianzhou 6 resupply ship to dock with the Chinese space station. The automated cargo craft is the fifth resupply freighter for the Chinese space station. Read our full story.

Updated: May 10

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the second pair of small CubeSats for NASA’s TROPICS mission. The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats, or TROPICS, mission will measure environmental and inner-core conditions for tropical cyclones. These two satellites were originally contracted to launch on Astra’s Rocket 3 vehicle. This mission was nicknamed “Rocket Like A Hurricane” by Rocket Lab. Read our full story.

Updated: May 09

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: May 04

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the ViaSat 3 Americas broadband communications satellite. ViaSat 3 Americas is the first of at least three new-generation Boeing-built geostationary satellites for ViaSat. A small communications satellite named Arcturus will launch as a secondary payload for Astranis. Delayed from 3rd Quarter and December 2022. Delayed from January, March 2023, April 8, April 18, April 24, and April 26. Scrubbed on April 27 and April 28.

Updated: May 02

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the second pair of O3b mPOWER broadband internet satellites into Medium Earth Orbit for SES of Luxembourg. The satellites, built by Boeing, will provide internet services over most of the populated world, building on SES’s O3b network. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from February and March. Read our full story.

Updated: April 29

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 46 Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from April 25. Scrubbed on April 26.

Updated: April 28

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, or PSLV, will launch the TeLEOS 2 satellite for Singapore. TeLEOS 2 was built in Singapore by ST Electronics, and carries an all-weather synthetic aperture radar Earth observation payload. Read our full story.

Updated: April 24

A SpaceX Super Heavy booster and Starship launch vehicle launched on the first fully integrated test flight of the new rocket. The mission ended four minutes after liftoff with a self-destruct command, following loss of vehicle control. If everything went according to plan, the mission would have traveled around the world for nearly one full orbit, resulting in a re-entry and splashdown of the Starship near Hawaii. The mission was attempting to reach near orbital velocity. The Super Heavy booster would have targeted a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. Delayed from 2022. Scrubbed on April 17. See our Mission Status Center.

Updated: April 21

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 21 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Read our full story.

Updated: April 19

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter 7 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with numerous small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg. Delayed from April 9. Moved forward from April 12. Delayed from April 11. Scrubbed on April 14 due to bad weather.

Updated: April 15

Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, designated VA260, to launch the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or JUICE. The JUICE spacecraft, built by Airbus, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons — Ganymede, Callisto and Europa — with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. JUICE will enter orbit around Jupiter in July 2031. This will mark the penultimate launch of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket. Scrubbed on April 13 due to high risk of lightning at the launch site.

Updated: April 15

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Intelsat 40e communications satellite for Intelsat. Intelsat 40e will join Intelsat’s “Epic” fleet of high-throughput satellites, providing in-flight connectivity and other mobile communications services over North and Central America. Intelsat 40e is a partial replacement for Intelsat 29e, which failed in 2019. Intelsat 40e hosts NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument to measure atmospheric chemistry and monitor air pollution over North America. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite was built by Maxar, and is based on the 1300 platform. Delayed from March 7. Read our launch story.

Updated: April 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 10 Tranche 0 demonstration satellites for the U.S. military’s Space Development Agency. The launch was the first of two Falcon 9 missions to carry SDA demonstration spacecraft for a future constellation of military missile tracking and data relay satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg. Delayed from Sept. 24. Delayed from Sept. 29 by payload supply chain issues. Delayed from January due to satellite issue. Delayed following an abort at T-3 seconds on Mar. 30. Our live coverage.

Updated: April 02

A Chinese Long March 2D rocket launched four radar satellites into orbit.

Updated: April 10

A Russian Soyuz 2-1v rocket launched an undisclosed payload for the Russian military.

Updated: April 10

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from March 24. Payload originally Starlink V2 Mini satellites but changed to V1.5 spacecraft.

Updated: March 31

An Israeli Shavit 2 rocket launched the Ofek 13 radar spy satellite for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. The radar Earth-imaging spacecraft was built by Israel Aerospace Industries and launched into a retrograde orbit.

Updated: April 02

India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. 3 (GSLV Mk.3) launched 36 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is developing a constellation of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit for low-latency broadband communications. Read our live coverage.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Read our launch story.

Updated: March 25

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launch two commercial optical Earth-imaging satellites for BlackSky. This mission was nicknamed “The Beat Goes On” by Rocket Lab, and featured an attempt to recover the Electron’s first stage booster at sea. Read our launch coverage.

Updated: March 26

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched the fourth Bars-M cartography satellite for the Russian military.

Updated: March 25

A Relativity Space Terran 1 rocket launched on its inaugural demonstration flight. It did not include a customer payload. Scrubbed on March 8 and March 11. Failed to reach orbit when a problem occurred during the second-stage portion of flight. Read our launch story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched SES 18 and SES 19 communications satellites for SES of Luxembourg. SES 18 and 19, built by Northrop Grumman, will provide C-band television and data services over the United States. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from March 8. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 52 Starlink internet satellites. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from March 16. See our Mission Status Center.

Updated: March 25

A Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle lifted off with the Capella-9 and Capella-10 commercial radar Earth observation satellites for Capella Space. This was the second Rocket Lab mission from a new launch pad in Virginia. Delayed from March 11 due to upper level winds. Delayed from March 15. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Dragon 2 spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The flight is the 27th mission by SpaceX conducted under a Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Delayed from March 11. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A Russian government Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage launched an Olymp-K communications satellite for the Russian military. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket failed during launch of nine small satellites for seven customers after dropping from a modified Boeing 747 carrier jet. The mission will be the first orbital launch based out of the United Kingdom and all of Western Europe. The LauncherOne rocket carried small payloads for the UK Ministry of Defense’s Defense Science & Technology Laboratory, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, RHEA Group, Space Forge, Satellite Applications Catapult, SatRevolution, and Oman. Virgin Orbit called this mission “Start Me Up.” Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 40 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is developing and deploying a constellation of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit for low-latency broadband communications. This was the third launch of OneWeb satellites with SpaceX, and OneWeb’s 17th launch overall. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Delayed from March 1. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

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Launch site: Launch Pad 2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

A Japanese H3 rocket failed during launch on its first test flight with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite 3, or ALOS 3, Earth observation satellite for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The second stage engine on the H3 rocket did not ignite. ALOS 3, also named Daichi 3, was designed to capture high-resolution, wide-swath images of all of the world’s land surfaces, providing data for applications in disaster management, land use, urban sprawl, scientific research, and coastal and vegetation environmental monitoring. The H3 rocket for Test Flight 1, or TF1, flew in the H3-22S configuration with two first stage engines, two strap-on solid rocket boosters, and a short payload fairing. Delayed from Feb. 11. Countdown Feb. 16 aborted after main engine start. Delayed from March 6 by bad weather forecast. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 51 Starlink internet satellites. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 27, Feb. 28, and March 2. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft on the program’s ninth flight with astronauts. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, Warren “Woody” Hoburg, UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev launched on the Crew Dragon spacecraft to begin a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea. Delayed from Feb. 19 and Feb. 26. Scrubbed on Feb. 27 due to a concern with the TEA-TEB ignition system. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 21 Starlink internet satellites. This was the first mission to launch a new larger Starlink spacecraft design known as “Starlink V2 Mini.” The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 23. Read our full story.

Updated: March 25

Launch time: 0024:29 GMT on 24th (7:24:29 p.m. EST on

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Launch site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

A Russian government Soyuz rocket launched the uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to the International Space Station. The mission was originally supposed to carry Russian commander Oleg Kononenko, Russian flight engineer Nikolai Chub, and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, but managers removed the crew from the mission in order to use the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft as a replacement for the damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the space station. The rocket flew in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

Launch time: 0359 GMT on 18th (10:59 p.m. EST on

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Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Inmarsat 6 F2 communications satellite for London-based Inmarsat. Built by Airbus Defense and Space, the satellite carries L-band and Ka-band payloads to provide mobile communications services to airplanes and ships. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 51 Starlink internet satellites. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 55 Starlink internet satellites. This was the fourth launch into a new orbital shell for SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink constellation, called Starlink Gen2. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 1. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

Launch time: 0348 GMT on 10th (10:48 p.m. EST on

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Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India

India’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) launched on its second orbital test flight following a failed inaugural launch attempt in 2022. This mission, known as SSLV-D2, launched India’s EOS-07 Earth observation technology demonstratoin satellite and two small rideshare payloads for Space Kidz India and Antaris. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A Russian government Soyuz rocket launched the 83rd Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station. The rocket flew in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

Launch time: 0132 GMT on 7th (8:32 p.m. EST on

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Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Amazonas Nexus communications satellite for the Spanish company Hispasat. Amazonas Nexus will provide broadband connectivity to airplanes, ships, and other mobile users across the Americas, Greenland, and travel corridors across the Atlantic Ocean. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite was built by Thales Alenia Space, and is based on the Spacebus NEO platform. Scrubbed on Feb. 5 due to poor launch and recovery weather. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A Russian government Proton rocket launched the Elektro-L 4 geostationary weather satellite. Built by NPO Lavochkin, the Elektro-L 4 satellite will provide near-real-time imagery of weather systems over Russia’s Far East and the Asia-Pacific region. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 53 Starlink internet satellites. This was the third launch into a new orbital shell for SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink constellation, called Starlink Gen2. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 1. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 49 Starlink internet satellites and a rideshare space tug payload for the Italian company D-Orbit. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Jan. 29 and Jan. 30. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 56 Starlink internet satellites. This was the second launch into a new orbital shell for SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink constellation, called Starlink Gen2. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Jan. 24. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

Launch time: 0150:21 GMT on 26th (8:51:21 p.m. EST on

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Launch site: Launch Pad 1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

A Japanese H-2A rocket, designated H-2A F46, launched the IGS Radar 7 radar reconnaissance satellite for Japan’s Information Gathering Satellites for the Japanese government’s Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center. The H-2A rocket flew in the 202 configuration with two strap-on solid rocket boosters. Delayed from Jan. 24. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle lifted off with three satellites for HawkEye 360, radio frequency geospatial analytics provider. This was the first Rocket Lab mission from a new launch pad in Virginia. Delayed from Dec. 7, Dec. 9, Dec. 13, Dec. 15, Dec. 16, Dec. 18, and Jan. 23. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of 51 Starlink internet satellites. This mission deployed the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Jan. 10. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the U.S. Space Force’s sixth third-generation navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite was built by Lockheed Martin. Delayed from late 2022. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the USSF 67 mission for the U.S. Space Force. The mission launched the Space Force’s second Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM, or CBAS 2, military communications satellite and the Long Duration Propulsive ESPA 3A, or LDPE 3A, rideshare satellite hosting multiple experimental payloads. The Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters landed at Landing Zones 1 and 1 at Cape Canaveral, and SpaceX did not attempt to recover the core stage. Delayed from 4th Quarter 2022, Jan. 10, Jan. 12, Jan. 13, and Jan. 14. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

An ABL RS-1 rocket failed during launch on its first orbital test flight, carrying two CubeSats for OmniTeq, a company with plans to deploy a constellation of small satellites to provide maritime communications services. Delayed from November and Dec. 7. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

Launch time: 0450 GMT on 10th (11:50 p.m. EST on

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Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 40 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is developing and deploying a constellation of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit for low-latency broadband communications. This was the second launch of OneWeb satellites with SpaceX, and OneWeb’s 16th launch overall. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Delayed from Jan. 8. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26

A Chinese Long March 7A rocket launched launched the Shijian 23 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. Shijian 23 is likely an experimental communications satellite.

Updated: March 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter 6 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with 114 small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Delayed from October, November, and December. Delayed from Jan. 2. Read our full story.

Updated: March 26