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SpaceX to launch 24 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX to launch 24 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairings, containing 24 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites, rolls out of Amazon’s payload processing facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility on Monday, Aug. 5, 2025. The satellites will launch on the KF-02 mission, the second Falcon 9 flight carrying these broadband satellites into low Earth orbit. Image: Amazon Amazon is back at the launch …

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SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florida, lands rocket at sea

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florida, lands rocket at sea

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida early this morning (Aug. 4). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 3:57 a.m. EDT (0757 GMT). It was SpaceX’s 96th Falcon 9 launch of the year already. The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth …

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SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 10th test flight (video, photos)

SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 10th test flight (video, photos)

SpaceX just fired up its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday (July 31), to help prep the vehicle for an upcoming test flight. The company conducted a “static fire” trial with the 171-foot-tall (52 meters) Starship upper stage at its Starbase site in South Texas on Thursday, briefly igniting one of the vehicle’s six Raptor engines. “Starship single-engine static fire demonstrating …

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SpaceX astronauts International Space Station

SpaceX astronauts International Space Station

A SpaceX Falcon Nine rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A carrying NASA’s Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., August 1, 2025. Steve Nesius | Reuters SpaceX delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station on Saturday, making the trip in a quick 15 hours. The four U.S., Russian and Japanese astronauts pulled …

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Launches to International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Launches to International Space Station

Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission launched at 11:43 a.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut …

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