A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base this evening (June 4), carrying 27 Starlink satellites ...

The booster put on a spectacular show as it descended tail first toward Landing ... second stage engine shut down as planned and two-and-a-half minutes after that, the SAOCOM 1A satellite was ...

The rocket lifted off at 1:42 p.m. ET today in California. — -- SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 today from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and while the rocket successfully deployed the ...

Live updates from the May 30 SpaceX GPS III-7 satellite mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space ...

Though the launch was to put a satellite into orbit ... One of those workhouse first stage rockets missed sticking the landing on the drone ship "A Shortfall of Gravitas" on Aug. 28 after helping ...

Oh, and the Falcon 9 rocket launched a satellite ... but SpaceX had been hoping for a successful landing, too. After the Falcon 9’s second stage separated, sending Jason 3 into orbit ...

A SATELLITE is intended to turn into a giant fireball as scientists bring the craft down from Earth's orbit in stages. The European Space Agency (ESA) said the Aeolus satellite will be guided on ...

After delivering the satellite to space, the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage was initially expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere for a landing attempt on a SpaceX drone ship parked in the Atlantic.

Unexpected problems with a NASA science satellite in orbit around ... be severed and the rocket-powered descent stage will fly off to a crash landing a safe distance away. Even engineers familiar ...

In December 2023, Alpha placed a Lockheed Martin satellite in the wrong orbit after it experienced an anomaly with its second stage ... successful commercial moon landing on March 2.