News From “Spaceflight Now” Magazine

Liftoff of the Starship vehicle from Starbase in Texas occurred at 4:47 p.m. CST (5:47 p.m. EST / 2247 UTC) on Friday, Nov. 13. The Ship could return to a landing at Starbase on Saturday.

Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is now scheduled for 12:11 p.m. EST (1711 UTC) on Sunday.

The company behind the Bluebird direct-to-cell satellite constellation said the addition of its own heavy-lift rocket is the final piece of its plans for vertical integration.

Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base occurred at 4:48 p.m. PST (7:48 p.m. EST / 0048 UTC). The mission is thought to be carrying satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield platform.

The announcement was made during an invite-only event ahead of the weekend’s, NASA-backed Max Power airshow at the Kennedy Space Center.

During Thursday’s spacewalk, the astronauts will install the eighth and final International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array, or IROSA.

Spacewalking astronauts Joshua Kutryk and Anil Menon unfurled the last of eight new solar arrays outside the International Space Station Thursday, working through an unexpected power snag to complete a five-year upgrade designed to keep...

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory plummeted back into Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday over western Indonesia, ending nearly 22 years in orbit for the gamma-ray burst hunter after a failed attempt to rescue it.

As of Monday, the U.S. Space Force predicted Swift would re-enter Earth's atmosphere at approximately 3:30 a.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 4, somewhere within about 21 degrees north or south of the equator — a band...

The Starlink 15-18 mission will add another 27 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites to SpaceX’s megaconstellation. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 9:04 p.m. PDT (12:04 a.m. EDT /...