The mission launched the next of BlackSky’s Gen-3 satellites to a mid-inclination circular 470km orbit, where it joined the remainder of the company’s constellation delivering very high-resolution imagery and AI-enabled analytics for daily intelligence operations.

Starship’s ninth flight test lifted off at 6:36 p.m. CT on Tuesday, May 27 from Starbase, Texas. The Super Heavy booster supporting the mission made the first ever reflight in the Starship program, having previously launched on Starship’s seventh flight test in January 2025.

These are the first drogue parachutes built entirely in-house by SpaceX. Tested earlier this year, they include key data-driven upgrades such as stronger joints and ribbons and a re-positioned pack for smoother deployment and inflation.

Starship flight test 9 was the ninth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. Ship 35 and Booster 14-2 flew on this test flight. This flight launched on May 27, 2025, at 23:36 UTC .

The mission deployed a single synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging satellite called QPS-SAR-10 (nicknamed “WADATSUMI-I” for the Japanese god of the sea) to a 575km circular Earth orbit, from where the satellite will join the rest of the iQPS constellation in providing high resolution images and ...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Kuiper-1 mission for Amazon’s Project Kuiper lifted off on April 28 at 7:01 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Kuiper 1 launch marks the beginning of full-scale deployment of the Kuiper ...

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shared stunning visuals from the Fram2 mission, the first polar-orbit human spaceflight to explore Earth. The views, including a four-hour extended video, captured the Earth's polar regions from the Dragon's domed window during the mission.

A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX's Starlink 6-75 mission Thursday night (May 1) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) in Florida. The Space Coast liftoff occurred at 9:51 p.m. EDT (0151 GMT on May 2) from CCSFS's Launch Complex-40 (LC-40). The rocket carried 28 new Starlink satellites to ...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Kuiper-1 mission for Amazon’s Project Kuiper lifts off on April 28 at 7:01 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Kuiper 1 launch marks the beginning of full-scale deployment of the Kuiper ...

Falcon 9 launches NROL-145 from California, completing our first of the new national security missions awarded in October 2024. The NROL-145 mission being the first launched under this new batch demonstrates both operational readiness and trust in SpaceX's launch cadence.

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket will launch the Kuiper 1 mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to provide fast, reliable internet to customers ...

Views of SpaceX's two Florida launch pads from space · Watch Falcon 9 launch 27 @Starlink satellites to orbit from California.