Spaceflight Now reports, “SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket early Sunday carrying the Israeli Dror 1 satellite. The mission was initially shrouded in secrecy as the satellite’s manufacturer, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), shunned any pre-launch publicity. The mission, referred to by SpaceX as ‘Commercial GTO-1,’ lifted off at 1:04 a.m. EDT (0504 UTC) on Sunday, July 13.”
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Blue Origin New Shepard Launches 6 Tourists on Suborbital Trip from West Texas
SPACE reports, “Blue Origin sent its 70th person into space today (June 29) on its 13th rocket flight to carry passengers. The company’s New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle lifted off Saturday at 9:39 a.m. CDT (10:39 a.m. EDT or 1439 GMT) from its Launch Site One in West Texas. On board were husband and wife Allie and Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis and James Sitkin.”
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Launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-33 Mission from Launch Site One, Texas, June 29, 2025 (Launch takes place at the 35:33 mark)
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Rocket Lab Launches Electron Rocket from New Zealand
SPACE reports Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket from New Zealand on June 26. The rocket carried a trio of “radio frequency geolocation microsatellites and a fourth experimental satellite dubbed ‘Kestrel-0A’. The group was released into a polar low-Earth orbit (LEO) at an altitude of about 320 miles (520 kilometers).”
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Rocket Lab’s ‘Get The Hawk Outta Here’ Mission Launch (Launch takes place at the 18:37 mark)
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Fourth Axiom Space Private Astronaut Mission to ISS
Space News reports, “SpaceX launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft on a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station June 25 after weeks of delays. A Falcon 9 lifted off at 2:31 a.m. Eastern from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A. The Crew Dragon spacecraft deployed from the upper stage in low Earth orbit nearly 10 minutes later. The Falcon 9’s first stage returned to land at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral.”
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Axiom Mission 4 Launches to the International Space Station (Launch takes place at the 52:42 mark)
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SpaceX Completes 75th Falcon 9 Launch of the Year, Deploys 28 Starlink Satellites
Spaceflight Now reports, “SpaceX completed its 75th Falcon 9 rocket launch of the year with a mission that blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the predawn hours of Wednesday. The mission, dubbed Starlink 10-18, included the 9,000th Starlink satellite launched to low Earth orbit to date.”
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Spaceflight Now Update: June 18, 3:15 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirms deployment of the 28 Starlink satellites.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral at 1:55 a.m. EDT on June 18, 2025 (Launch at 1:00:05 mark)
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches 23 Starlink Satellites from Florida
Spaceflight Now reports SpaceX landed its 460th booster in the midst of the Starlink 12-24 mission, marking “the 460th booster landing to date.” Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 9:05 a.m. EDT.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, June 10, 2025 (Launch at 1:00:00 mark)
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Venus Aerospace Conducts Landmark 1st Launch with Potentially Revolutionary Rocket Engine
SPACE reports, “Houston-based startup Venus Aerospace has completed the first-ever test flight of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) in the United States. The launch took place on Wednesday (May 14) from Spaceport America in New Mexico. A small rocket equipped with Venus’ RDRE lifted off at 9:37 a.m. EDT (1337 GMT; 7:37 a.m. local time in New Mexico).”
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Rocket Lab Electron Rocket Launches Private Japanese Earth-observing Satellite
SPACE reports, “Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observing satellite for the Japanese company iQPS early Saturday morning (May 17). An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand site on Saturday at 4:17 a.m. EDT (0817 GMT; 8:17 p.m. local New Zealand time).”
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Rocket Lab electron rocket launches private Japanese Earth-observing satellite. (Launch occurs at 19:29)
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SpaceX Launches Another 26 Starlink Satellites to Orbit
SPACE reports, “SpaceX launched 26 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California Monday night (May 12), on the first leg of a spaceflight doubleheader. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 26 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s central coast Monday at 9:15 p.m. EDT (6:15 p.m. local California time; 0115 GMT on May 13).”
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SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites from California. (Launch occurs at 00:11)
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Vega-C Rocket Launches European Forest-Monitoring Satellite from South America
SPACE reports, “A European forest-monitoring satellite headed toward orbit from South America early Tuesday morning (April 29). The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Biomass spacecraft lifted off atop a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Tuesday at 5:15 a.m. EDT (0915 GMT; 6:15 a.m. local time in Korea). Arianespace’s stream began at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT), and the launch can now be watched on demand.”
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Flight VV26 | Biomass | Vega C (Launch occurs at 22:45)
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