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SpaceX's Starship megarocket launches on its seventh flight on Jan. 16, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX now has permission to launch its Starship megarocket for the eighth time. Elon Musk's company is targeting Monday evening (March 3) for Flight 8 of Starship, which will lift off from Starbase in South…

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 moon lander, named Athena, captured this view of Earth shortly after launching on Feb. 26, 2025. Visible at the bottom of the frame is the second stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that lofted Athena. (Image credit: Intuitive Machines) A newly launched lunar lander just captured…

Monika Luabeya Feb 27, 2025 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander (IM-2) soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The lander is set to land on the Moon on March 6. The…

A streak shot of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as it launched the IM-2 mission for Intuitive Machines and sent its Nova-C lander, Athena, to a lunar transfer orbit. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Intuitive Machines is heading back to the Moon following its first trip a year ago. The company based…

Should Wednesday’s launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center proceed as planned, it’s gonna be carrying a buttload of science with it. The rocket will be carrying not one, not two, but three important payloads, including a satellite set to orbit the Moon, a privately operated…

SpaceX has confirmed that it’s targeting Thursday, March 6, for the eighth test of the Starship, the most powerful rocket ever to fly. Read on for details on how to watch a livestream of the upcoming flight. The Starship — comprising the first-stage Super Heavy booster and the upper-stage Starship…

SpaceX has finished its investigation into what went wrong on the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket, which ended with a dramatic explosion. Flight 7 launched on Jan. 16, sending Starship aloft from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas. The mission was partially successful; SpaceX caught Starship's giant first-stage…

SpaceX's Starship megarocket launches during the vehicle's seventh test flight on Jan. 16, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly again this week, if all goes according to plan. The company is planning to launch Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, for the eighth time…

SpaceX launched another set of its Starlink internet satellites from southern California on Saturday evening (Feb 22). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station at 8:38 p.m. EST (5:38 p.m. local time or 0138 GMT Feb. 23). As to plan, the Falcon…

A Falcon 9 lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Feb. 1. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX said that a Falcon 9 upper stage that reentered over Europe earlier this week suffered a propellant leak that prevented it from doing a controlled reentry. The upper stage was placed…