Space News for Friday, August 22, 2025

SpaceX sends USSF-37 mission X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle soaring from the Cape on Thursday – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-08-21 00:00 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on Thursday, August 21 at 11:50 p.m. ET launched the USSF-36 mission to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy ...

Space News for Saturday, August 09, 2025

US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake Original Publication Date: 2025-08-07 14:22 The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the tsunami spawned by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on July 30. Data provided ...

Space News for Thursday, March 27, 2025

USSF certifies ULA Vulcan for NSSL missions – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-03-26 00:00 U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Assured Access to Space organization has announced the certification of United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan launch system for National Security ...

Space News for Saturday, February 17, 2024

H3 reaches orbit on second launch Original Publication Date: 2024-02-17 01:17 Japan's H3 rocket successfully reaches orbit on its second launch Feb. 16. The H3 rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 7:22 p.m. Eastern. On the vehicle’s inaugural launch in March 2023, that engine ...

Space News for Thursday, January 18, 2024

Astrobotic confirms Peregrine reentry plans Original Publication Date: 2024-01-18 02:34 Astrobotic confirms Peregrine lunar lander will reenter over South Pacific on Jan. 18. Company says it had to perform two-step process to put spacecraft on that reentry trajectory. Peregrine launched Jan. 8 ...

Space News for Wednesday, November 02, 2022

SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches first U.S. national security mission Original Publication Date: 2022-11-01 15:01 USSF-44 was SpaceX’s 50th launch of 2022. USSF-44 was a direct-to-geostationary orbit launch. It carried two Space Force satellites and small rideshare payloads. Both side boosters ...