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A SpaceX rocket is set to lift off this morning with the latest batch of Starlink internet satellites. Here's what to know.
Welcome to Edition 7.44 of the Rocket Report! We had some interesting news on Thursday afternoon from Down Under. As Gilmour ...
The Kinetica-1 rocket launched Wednesday for the first time since a failure doomed its previous attempt to reach orbit in ...
A routine liftoff at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday afternoon launched the three-day holiday weekend and set a ...
Hours before liftoff, the National Weather Service had issued flood advisories up until 8:45 p.m. Friday for portions of rain ...
The fairing enshrouds the rocket's payload during ascent and is usually jettisoned once the atmosphere is thin enough that there is no risk to the payload. That typically happens much higher up than ...
This August 2023 photo shows a stack of SpaceX's original Starlink V2 Mini satellites during payload processing before being encapsulated inside the protective nosecone fairing of a Falcon 9 rocket.
"Fairing deployment confirmed ... window lasts from 12:24 a.m. to 4:55 a.m. at pad 39A. Mission: SpaceX will launch another payload of Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket into low-Earth ...