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The Boeing-made autonomous and maneuverable spaceplane was launched for its seventh mission on Dec. 28, 2023, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Those payloads are collecting “all kinds of very interesting data” on Beijing’s network of space surveillance satellites, Space RCO Director Kelly Hammett said.

The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 9:24 p.m. EST March 2.

The service is investing billions to revamp its launch infrastructure as the demand for rides to space continues to balloon.

The mission for Intuitive Machines is the fourth in a series of NASA-backed technology development and flight service contracts.

A Falcon 9 Launch of the $1.6 billion mission from Cape Canaveral is currently planned for no earlier than September of 2027.

New spins on NASA-developed heat shield technologies paved the way for an era of reusable space vehicles.

The robot would be hosted as a payload aboard Momentus’ Vigoride orbital services vehicle.

The Trans Lunar Injection was executed Feb. 8, according to a Feb. 10 NASA mission update.

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Lockheed Martin is preparing to ship its newly completed Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft to Kennedy Space Center for its planned launch next month to map water deposits on the Moon.

“We are at an inflection point,” says Kelli Kedis Ogborn, vice president of Space Commerce and Entrepreneurship at the Space Foundation.

Ispace of Japan’s commercial “Resilience” lunar lander has completed its initial orbital maneuver, setting it on a course toward the Moon.

Two pioneering commercial lunar landers, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Japan's ispace's Resilience, successfully launched early Jan. 15.

Launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is planned for Jan. 15 at 1:11 a.m. EST.

The seventh and eighth O3b mPOWER satellites were launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:26 p.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Ispace says it is targeting another attempt to touch down a lunar lander on the Moon’s surface around four to five months after launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9.

The spacecraft was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:52 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander is due to launch mid-January onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and attempt a soft landing on the Moon about 60 days later.

Launched Oct. 14 atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, the $5.2 billion mission will perform a series of 49 flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa beginning in 2031.

SpaceX knocked off a trio of Falcon 9 launches in less than 24 hr., ahead of a planned flight test of its Starship-Super Heavy vehicle Nov. 19.

As of midday on Nov. 14, Rocket Lab shares were trading at $17.77.

SES has launched six out of 13 planned O3b mPOWER satellites.

The Boeing subsidiary completed two identical satellites for NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (Tracers) mission.

Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A followed a Falcon 9 scrub Nov. 3 at the neighboring Cape Canaveral SFS Space Launch Complex 40.