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a black and white rocket ignites its engines on the launch pad at night, just as an abort is called.

Abort! SpaceX calls off launch of 'MicroGEO' satellites at last second (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites each its engines just as an abort is called at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2024.

Launches & Spacecraft
A SpaceX Starship spacecraft on a test stand with the setting sun for Flight 7

SpaceX Starship launches: Flight 7 mission updates

By Tariq Malik last updated

Read the latest news about SpaceX's Starship megarocket test flights, launches, photos and more.

Launches & Spacecraft
Graphic showing the the artemis accords logo above white text reading "the artemis accords", the surface of the moon is seen in the lower portion of the image and a distant Mars peeks out from the surface of the moon.

Artemis Accords: What are they & which countries are involved?

By Robert Lea last updated

Reference As the Artemis program aims to return humanity to the moon and beyond, the Artemis Accords lay out a framework for nations collaborating in this effort.

Reference
dozens of people in red and orange thermal coats stand on ice around a large black cruise ship

Space2Sea Antarctica: A student journalist's expedition to bottom of the world begins

By Gabe Castro-Root published

Missions
Artist's rendering of Axiom Space's fully assembled Axiom Station in low Earth orbit.

Axiom's private space station is coming sooner than we thought

By Julian Dossett published

Axiom Space has decided to change up the method for assembling its commercial space station, meaning the outpost could be free-flying as soon as 2028.

Private Spaceflight
a cone-shaped capsule with its outer skin removed, revealing a maze of wires and electronic components

Watch NASA's Artemis Orion moon spacecraft blow its top during testing (video)

By Samantha Mathewson published

NASA's Orion spacecraft recently completed an 11-month test campaign, during which it was subjected to extreme conditions of a launch abort scenario and electromagnetic effects of lightning strikes.

Artemis
A Rocket Lab Electron booster frosting over during fueling for "Owl The Way Up" mission

Rocket Lab scrubs Strix radar satellite launch for Synspective over 'sensor data'

By Tariq Malik published

A new exact launch date for the Strix satellite launch by Rocket Lab has yet to be announced.

Launches & Spacecraft
The emblem of the United States Space Force.

US Space Force 5 years later: What has it accomplished so far, and where does it go from here?

By Brett Tingley published

As the U.S. Space Force celebrates its fifth anniversary, the service's leadership looked back on its accomplishments so far while looking ahead to the future.

Launches & Spacecraft
A spacesuited cosmonaut standing on a platform at the end of a robotic arm outside the International Space Station releases a bundle of trash into the blackness of space.

Russian cosmonauts install X-ray detector, jettison trash on spacewalk outside ISS

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner installed an X-ray detector and jettisoned trash during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024.

International Space Station
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule that will fly the Crew-9 astronaut mission stand on the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. SpaceX posted this photo on X on Sept. 24, 2024.

SpaceX inks deal with Vast to launch 2 astronaut missions to the ISS

By Mike Wall published

California-based company Vast Space has booked two crewed flights to the ISS with SpaceX, though the missions still must be approved by NASA.

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