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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the mPower 7 & 8 satellites for SES from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 17, 2024.

SpaceX launches 2 mPOWER satellites from Florida on 2nd leg of spaceflight doubleheader (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX launched two communication satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast today (Dec. 17) on the second leg of a spaceflight doubleheader.

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SpaceX conducts a single-engine static fire test with the upper stage of the Flight 7 Starship vehicle. The company posted this photo via X on Dec. 17, 2024.

SpaceX test-fires Starship spacecraft again ahead of Flight 7 launch (video)

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX test-fired the upper stage of its seventh Starship megarocket again recently, practicing an in-space engine burn.

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a bright plume of fire shoots through a dark early morning sky

SpaceX launches 6th batch of next-gen US spy satellites from California (video)

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX launched the sixth batch of "proliferated architecture" spy satellites for the NRO this morning (Dec. 17) from California's central coast.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the RRT-1 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Dec. 16, 2024.

SpaceX launches advanced GPS satellite in 'rapid response' demo for US Space Force (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX launched an advanced GPS satellite to orbit Monday night (Dec. 16), on a mission that the U.S. Space Force said showcased a new level of responsiveness and readiness.

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a tall pointy chrome rocket with black belly and white frosty mid section fires its engines on a test stand with smoke billowing to the left.

Watch SpaceX Starship test fire engines ahead of flight 7 launch (video)

By Josh Dinner published

SpaceX fired up its next Starship for an engine test before the rocket's next launch to space.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 22 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Dec. 13, 2024.

SpaceX launches 22 Starlink internet satellites from California, lands rocket at sea (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX launched 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast on Friday (Dec. 13).

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a black bellied chrome spaceship stands on a concrete pad with a winding creek giving way to a sunset in the distance.

SpaceX rolls 7th Starship spacecraft out for testing ahead of next launch (photos)

By Josh Dinner published

SpaceX has readied its next Starship vehicle for testing ahead of the megarocket's 7th test flight.

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a large silver cone-shaped spacecraft in a white cleanroom

SpaceX launch of NASA's new 3D-sky-mapping satellite set for February 2025

By Julian Dossett published

NASA is aiming for February 2025 to launch its SPHEREx observatory, which will produce 3D maps of the entire visible sky.

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a black-and-white rocket launches at night above a bright plume of fire

Rocket Lab's secretive launch last month was a hypersonic test for the US military (photos)

By Mike Wall published

Rocket Lab's pioneering suborbital launch last month conducted hypersonic tests for the U.S. military, the company has revealed.

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a bright ball of light illuminates the sky above a cone-shaped evergreen tree covered in colored light bulbs

SpaceX rocket launch tops the Christmas tree at Vandenberg Space Force Base (photo)

By Samantha Mathewson published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket illuminated the Christmas tree during the holiday lighting ceremony that coincided with a Starlink satellite launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Dec. 4.

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