Daily News Updates for SpaceX Customer Launches

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Date	Customer	Notes
2024
30-Jan	CRS2 Cygnus NG-20	NASA live coverage: Launch of Northrop Grumman’s 20th Cargo Mission to the Space Station....view. Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft performs a Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission for NASA, NG-20, this time aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Hence, liftoff took place from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida heading north-east. Following the company’s tradition, this freighter received the name SS Patricia 'Patty' Hilliard Robertson, after the NASA astronaut. Falcon 9’s booster returned touching down on Landing Zone 1. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
2023
12-Nov	O3b mPOWER 5 & 6	The Launch Pad coverage: SpaceX O3B MPOWER 5 & 6 Launch....view. On its second Falcon 9 mission of the weekend, SpaceX launched a pair of internet-providing satellites for Luxembourg-based company, SES. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station was during an 89-minute window. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
11-Nov	Transporter-9	The Launch Pad coverage: SpaceX Transporter-9 Launch....view. The Falcon 9 v1.2 Block 5 rocket by SpaceX launched its ninth dedicated mission under the Smallsat Rideshare Program, known as Transporter-9. In essence, the objective is to send a diverse range of spacecraft into orbit, provided by an array of clients. Liftoff occured at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
13-Oct	Psyche	Live coverage: The Psyche spacecraft launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket....view. SpaceX launched the Psyche probe into a journey to a metal world: the asteroid 16 Psyche. This is the first scientific probe that intends to visit such a celestial body. To that end, the payload travels atop a Falcon Heavy rocket, aiming at an escape trajectory. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
2-Sep	Transport & Tracking Layers 0-2	Live coverage: West Coast Falcon 9 launches 13 demonstration satellites for military mega-constellation....view. SpaceX transported a group of satellites for the Space Development Agency in the mission Transport & Tracking Layers 0-2. The company used its Falcon 9 rocket in order to orbit 11 Transport Layer satellites. Additionally, another two flew toward the Tracking Layer. The vehicle lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E), at Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California, United States. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
3-Aug	Galaxy 37	Live coverage: Intelsat completes refresh of satellites with Falcon 9 launch of Galaxy 37....view. SpaceX successfully launched a single communication satellite to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) for Intelsat. The Galaxy 37 satellite was launched from SpaceX’s launch pad Space Launch Complex 40, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida, USA. Following deployment from the second stage, the satellite will spend the coming months raising its orbits to its operational orbit in geostationary Earth orbit (GEO). It is expected that the satellite will be operational by late 2023. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
29-Jul	EchoStar 24/Jupiter 3	Live coverage: Falcon Heavy launches heaviest commercial communications satellite yet....view. SpaceX launched the most massive public payload to Geostationary Orbit atop its Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida. This mission marks the third Falcon Heavy mission of 2023 and placed the EchoStar 24/Jupiter 3 communication satellite directly into Geostationary Orbit. Space Systems/Loral (SSL) had selected Hughes Network Systems to build its next-generation ultra-high density satellite EchoStar24, which is also known as Jupiter 3. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
1-Jul	Euclid Telescope	Live coverage: SpaceX launches European ‘dark energy telescope’ to help unravel cosmology’s biggest mysteries....view. SpaceX successfully launched the Euclid Space Telescope for the European Space Agency (ESA). The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida, where it sent the telescope to the Earth-Sun Lagrange point. This telescope will take roughly four weeks to reach this point, where it will then operate for six years. Euclid is a visible-to-near-infrared space telescope developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Euclid Consortium. The objective of the Euclid mission is to better understand dark energy and dark matter by accurately measuring the acceleration of the universe. To achieve this, the Korsch-type telescope will measure the shapes of galaxies at varying distances from Earth and investigate the relationship between distance and redshift. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
18-Jun	Satria	Live coverage: Indonesian communications satellite launched by SpaceX rocket....view. SpaceX’s Satria mission successfully launched the Satria satellite for Pasifik Satelit Nusantara atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida, United States. Satria was placed into a geostationary transfer orbit, where it will spend the following months raising its orbit to the 146-degree East Geostationary Earth Orbit slot. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
12-Jun	Transporter-8	Live coverage: SpaceX’s Transporter 8 rideshare mission lifts off from California....view. The Falcon 9 v1.2 Block 5 rocket by SpaceX launched its eighth dedicated mission under the Smallsat Rideshare Program, known as Transporter-8. In essence, the objective is to send a diverse range of spacecraft into orbit, provided by an array of clients. Liftoff occured at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
27-May	Arabsat 7B (Badr 8)	Live coverage: SpaceX launches satellite for Arabsat....view. The 33rd launch of a Falcon 9 rocket in 2023 was yet another success. SpaceX lofted the Arabsat 7B (Badr 8) satellite to a geostationary transfer orbit. After getting into orbit, the Badr 8 satellite began operations to position itself in a geostationary orbit over Europe. This launch took place on the east coast of the United States from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida from Space Launch Complex (SLC) 40. After boosting the Falcon 9 second stage and Badr 8, the Falcon 9 first stage successfully landed on the Just Read The Instructions drone ship. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
20-May	Iridium-9 & OneWeb 19	Live coverage: SpaceX launches satellites for OneWeb and Iridium....view. SpaceX launched 15 OneWeb internet communication satellites (and a single test satellite) atop its Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket. Alongside these satellites, Iridium launched five of its Iridium-9 next-generation satellites. Lifting off from Space Launch Complex 4 East, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California, USA, this mission places satellites into a polar orbit. This mission is the second mission of SpaceX’s second-stage Merlin vacuum nozzle redesign, which is only used on lower-performance missions. This shorter, and therefore lower-performance, nozzle decreases the number of return to launch site (RTLS) missions that SpaceX is able to launch; for this reason, this mission is landing on one of SpaceX’s drone ships. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
01-May	ViaSat-3 Americas	Live coverage: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy hits bullseye with ascent to near-geosynchronous orbit....view. For the second time in 2023, SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Unlike the previous Falcon Heavy launch, which featured the landing of the two side boosters back on land, this Falcon Heavy was fully expended, meaning none of the three boosters were recovered. Additionally, the two side boosters performed a re-entry test after separation. Unlike other missions to geostationary orbit, the Falcon Heavy second stage performed a direct insertion. This is contrary to other missions where the satellite performs a burn to get into it’s required orbit. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
28-Apr	O3b mPower 3 & 4	Live coverage: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket with two O3b internet satellites....view. SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket with O3b mPower 3 & 4, two communication satellites of the novel terabit-per-second O3b mPower constellation in MEO (Medium Earth Orbit). The rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
15-Apr	Transporter-7	Live coverage: SpaceX launches Transporter 7 rideshare mission from California....view. SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 v1.2 Block 5 rocket to carry out the seventh dedicated mission of its Smallsat Rideshare Program: Transporter-7. Through this, the company placed a large number of spacecraft of different natures provided by an assortment of clients into orbit. The rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E), located at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
7-Apr	Intelsat 40e & TEMPO	Live coverage: SpaceX launches Intelsat satellite with NASA air quality sensor....view. SpaceX successfully launched the Intelsat 40e satellite for Intelsat, which hosts NASA’s tropospheric emissions: monitoring of pollution (TEMPO) spacecraft. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida, USA. This launch marked SpaceX’s 23rd launch of 2023–a launch every 4.2 days. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
2-Apr	Transport & Tracking Layers 0-1	Live coverage: U.S. military begins launching satellites to counter hypersonic missile threat....view. SpaceX launched a group of satellites for the Space Development Agency in the Transport & Tracking Layers 0-1 mission. The company used the Falcon 9 rocket in order to place eight Transport Layer satellites into orbit, and another two for the Tracking Layer. The vehicle lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E), at Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California, United States. This was the first of two flights aimed at placing spacecraft into Tranche 0. Flight 1 was tasked with populating one of the two different orbital planes in this tranche, both at the same altitude of 950 km (~590 mi) and 89.5 degrees inclination. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
17-Mar	SES 18 and SES 19	Live coverage: SpaceX launches communications satellites for SES of Luxembourg....view. SpaceX successfully launched the SES-18 & SES-19, two C-band satellites, on their Falcon 9 Block 5. The rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, marking the 19th launch of the company this year. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
9-Mar	OneWeb #17	Live coverage: SpaceX launches and lands rocket on mission for OneWeb....view. SpaceX successfully launched 40 OneWeb internet communication satellites atop its Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket. Lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida, USA, the OneWeb 17 mission placed satellites into a polar orbit, which will be raised thereafter to a 1,200 km polar orbit. OneWeb 17 boosted the number of satellites launched to 584. This mission was going to be the first mission of SpaceX’s upcoming second stage Merlin vacuum nozzle redesign, which will be used on lower-performance missions. This shorter, and therefore lower-performance, nozzle will decrease the number of return to launch site (RTLS) missions that SpaceX is able to launch; for this reason, it is likely that future missions in this payload class will land on one of SpaceX’s ASDSs. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
18-Feb	Immarsat 6-F2	Live coverage: SpaceX completes Friday doubleheader with launch for Inmarsat....view. SpaceX completed a launch doubleheader Friday night with the liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral carrying a dual-band, six-ton mobile communications relay station for London-based Inmarsat, hours after launching another Falcon 9 from California with a batch of Starlink internet satellites. The Friday night launch from Cape Canaveral began at 10:59 p.m. EST (0359 GMT Saturday), less than nine hours after a Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
7-Feb	Amazonas Nexus	Live coverage: SpaceX launches communications satellite for Spain’s Hispasat....view. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Monday night from Cape Canaveral with Amazonas Nexus, a powerhouse satellite owned by the Spanish company Hispasat to connect trans-Atlantic airline passengers, maritime traffic, and rural communities across the Americas. The Falcon 9 finally flashed to life after weather delays and climbed away from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 8:32 p.m. EST (0132 GMT). More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
31-Jan	ION SCV009	Live coverage: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from California....view. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday with 49 Starlink internet satellites and a rideshare payload for the Italian company D-Orbit. Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California occurred at 8:15 a.m. PST (11:15 a.m. EST; 1615 GMT) after delays over the last two days to allow SpaceX to complete pre-launch preparations on the vehicle. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
18-Jan	GPSIII SV06	Live coverage: SpaceX delivers GPS satellite to 12,000-mile-high orbit....view. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket just after sunrise Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, hauling a GPS navigation satellite into orbit to replace an aging 16-year-old spacecraft in the global positioning network trusted to guide everything from military weapons to civilian commuters. The mission was the second SpaceX launch for the U.S. Space Force in less than three days, coming on the heels of a Falcon Heavy launch Sunday that accurately delivered two military satellites into a high-altitude geosynchronous orbit. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
15-Jan	USSF-67	Live coverage: SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches USSF-67 from 39A....view. The latest Falcon Heavy mission launched Sunday, Jan. 15, at 5:56 PM EST (22:56 UTC) and was later declared a success by the US Space Force. The flight, designated USSF–67 (United States Space Force 67), carried two payloads for the Space Force directly into geostationary orbit (GEO) from LC-39A. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
10-Jan	OneWeb Flight #16	Live coverage: SpaceX sends 40 more OneWeb internet satellites into orbit....view. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Monday night with 40 more internet satellites for OneWeb, nudging the network closer to full operational capability. The Falcon 9 booster returned to Cape Canaveral for landing eight minutes later. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:50:17 p.m. EST (0450:17 GMT). The launcher thundered into the sky on the power of 1.7 million pounds of thrust from nine kerosene-fueled Merlin main engines, kicking off SpaceX’s second mission of the year. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
3-Jan	Transporter-6	Live coverage: SpaceX launches 114 small satellites on first mission of 2023....view. SpaceX’s first launch of the year fired away from Cape Canaveral Tuesday and hauled 114 small satellites into polar orbit for operators in 23 countries, deploying a range of payloads for tech demo, Earth observation, and communication missions. A 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket did the lifting, kicking off the mission at 9:56 a.m. EST (1456 GMT) with a thundering launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The launch marked the first of as many as 100 missions on SpaceX’s schedule for 2023, following a record 61 launches last year. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
2022
30 Dec	EROS-C3	Live coverage: SpaceX launches Israeli satellite from California....view. SpaceX’s final launch of the year has blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, with a Falcon 9 rocket boosting a $186 million Earth-imaging satellite into orbit for the Israeli company ImageSat International. Liftoff occurred at 11:38 p.m. PST Thursday (2:38 a.m. EST; 0738 GMT Friday), and the Falcon 9 booster returned to Vandenberg for landing less than 10 minutes later. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
16 Dec	O3b mPOWER 1 & 2	Live coverage: SpaceX launch begins deploying SES’s O3b mPOWER network....view. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 5:48 p.m. EST (2221 GMT) Friday from Cape Canaveral on a mission to boost two high-power broadband satellites for SES’s O3b mPOWER network toward a unique equatorial orbit some 5,000 miles above Earth. Flying due east from Florida’s Space Coast, the Falcon 9 rocket will place the first two O3b mPOWER satellites into orbit to join SES’s 20 first-generation O3b internet satellites launched from 2013 through 2019. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
16 Dec	SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)	Live coverage: SpaceX launches U.S.-French environmental satellite....view. A French-built satellite equipped with an innovative U.S.-made radar instrument blasted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Friday from California, kicking off a mission to investigate the link between Earth’s water cycle and our planet’s changing climate. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography, or SWOT, satellite lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 3:46:47 a.m. PST (6:46:47 a.m. EST; 1146:47 GMT) at the top of a Falcon 9 launcher. The Falcon 9, powered by nine kerosene-fueled Merlin 1D main engines, launched from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg, a military spaceport located roughly 140 miles (225 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
11 Dec	HAKUTO-R Mission 1	Live coverage: Japanese moon lander, NASA hitchhiker payload launched by SpaceX....view. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral early Sunday with a commercial Japanese robotic moon lander and a NASA hitchhiker micro-payload called Lunar Flashlight that will seek out signs of water ice hidden in the permanently dark floors of craters at the moon’s poles. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 launcher departed from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 2:38:13 a.m. EST (0738:13 GMT) Sunday, a week-and-a-half after SpaceX grounded the mission to resolve an unspecified problem with the rocket. SpaceX rolled the rocket back into its hangar for troubleshooting after calling off a Nov. 30 launch attempt, then returned the Falcon 9 to the pad for Sunday’s countdown. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
8 Dec	OneWeb #15	Live coverage: SpaceX delivers for rival OneWeb with sunset launch from Kennedy Space Center....view. Forty more OneWeb internet satellites rocketed into orbit from Kennedy Space Center at sunset Thursday, the company’s first launch with SpaceX after suspending flights on Russian rockets earlier this year. Following a spectacular sunset blastoff at 5:27 p.m. EST (2227 GMT) Thursday, the Falcon 9’s upper stage headed into a roughly 373-mile-high (600-kilometer) polar orbit to deploy the 40 OneWeb satellites, while the first stage booster returned to Cape Canaveral for landing. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
23 Nov	Eutelsat 10B	Live coverage: Defying weather odds, SpaceX sends Eutelsat broadband platform into orbit....view. Despite a bleak weather forecast, SpaceX took advantage of a break in cloud cover over Cape Canaveral Tuesday night to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with the Eutelsat 10B satellite, a high-throughput relay platform to beam in-flight WiFi signals and maritime data services across a coverage zone from the North Atlantic to the Middle East. The Falcon 9 rocket was powered by a first stage booster making its 11th and final flight. SpaceX did not attempt to recover the booster, giving Eutelsat 10B a ride to as high of an orbit as possible to speed up its entry into service next year. SpaceX called off a launch attempt for the Eutelsat 10B mission Monday night to perform additional pre-flight checkouts. There was a 90% chance of unfavorable weather for Tuesday night’s launch opportunity, but conditions improved in time to allow the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher to blast off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 9:57 p.m. EST (0257 GMT). More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
12 Nov	Galaxy 31 & 32	Live coverage: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 booster into retirement on Intelsat mission....view. SpaceX launched one of its reusable Falcon 9 rocket boosters for the last time Saturday on a rare expendable mission for Intelsat, devoting all of the launcher’s propellant toward placing a pair of television broadcasting satellites into orbit. Intelsat says it paid SpaceX an additional fee for the expendable mission. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 11:06 a.m. EST (1606 GMT) Saturday after a four-day delay caused by Hurricane Nicole. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
3 Nov	Hotbird 13G	SpaceX launches Airbus-built TV broadcasting spacecraft for Eutelsat....view. SpaceX launched the second in a series of three Falcon 9 rocket missions early Thursday for the European satellite operator Eutelsat, delivering to orbit a television broadcasting craft that also hosts an EU-funded payload to provide precise navigation data to airplanes. After a two-hour delay, the Falcon 9 rocket ignited its nine Merlin main engines and climbed away from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 1:22 a.m. EDT (0522 GMT) Thursday to begin a 36-minute mission to deploy Eutelsat’s Hotbird 13G communications satellite into an elongated transfer orbit stretching as far as 35,700 miles (57,500 kilometres) from Earth. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
1 Nov	USSF 44	Live coverage: Falcon Heavy launches from Kennedy Space Centre....view. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful operational launch vehicle, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:41 a.m. EDT (1341 GMT) Tuesday on a mission to deliver two U.S. Space Force satellites and multiple rideshare payloads into geosynchronous orbit, a journey that will take about six hours for the rocket’s upper stage. The Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters successfully returned to Cape Canaveral for landing about eight minutes after liftoff. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
15 Oct	Hotbird 13F	SpaceX launches European TV broadcasting satellite....view. An Airbus-built communications satellite rocketed into orbit early Saturday from Cape Canaveral on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher, bound for a high-altitude perch in geostationary orbit to beam hundreds of TV and radio channels to Eutelsat customers across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. SpaceX said it delayed the liftoff until the end of the night’s launch window at 1:22 a.m. EDT (0522 GMT) to allow additional time for data reviews, without providing any additional details. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
8 Oct	Galaxy 33 & 34	Live coverage: SpaceX launches two Intelsat communications satellites....view. A pair of TV broadcasting satellites for Intelsat launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Saturday at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT). SpaceX aborted a countdown Thursday due to a small helium leak, then called off another launch attempt Friday evening to allow time for additional vehicle checkouts. The launch attempt Thursday night automatically aborted at T-minus 30 seconds after the Falcon 9’s on-board computer, which controls the final minute of the countdown, detected a higher than expected pressure decay rate in the first stage’s helium system. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
10 Sep	BlueWalker 3	Live coverage: SpaceX launches one of its most complex missions yet....view. A reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 booster completed its record-breaking 14th flight to space after blastoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 9:20 p.m. EDT Saturday (0120 GMT Sunday). The mission is billed as one of SpaceX’s complex launches to date, with the objective to deploy 34 Starlink internet spacecraft and a testbed satellite for AST SpaceMobile’s space-based cellular broadband network. The rocket’s upper stage will fire its engines five times Saturday night — four burns to deploy AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 satellite and the 34 Starlink payloads into two distinct orbits, then a final maneuver to drive the upper stage back into Earth’s atmosphere for a destructive re-entry. The five engine firings by the Falcon 9’s upper stage will be the most ever performed on a SpaceX mission, besting the previous record by one. And the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket flying Saturday night will become SpaceX’s fleet leader. More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
5 September	Sherpa-LTC2	Live coverage: Falcon 9 launches Starlink satellites and Boeing rideshare payload Sherpa-LTC2....view. On Sunday, September 4 at 10:09 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 51 Starlink satellites and Spaceflight’s Sherpa-LTC, an orbital transfer vehicle, to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the seventh flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission....More details from Everyday Astronaut....view.
4 August	Danuri (KPLO)	Live coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Korean moon mission....view. South Korea’s first mission to the moon lifted off at 7:08 p.m. EDT (2308 GMT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The launch was the second of the day from Florida’s Space Coast, marking the shortest turnaround between launches at Cape Canaveral since 1967. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral with the Danuri, Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), a 1,495-pound (678-kilogram) spacecraft the size of a large refrigerator that will collect data on lunar geology and search for evidence of water ice hidden in craters at the moon’s poles.
29 June	SES-22	Live coverage: SpaceX launches SES broadcasting satellite....view. SpaceX launched a television broadcasting satellite Wednesday for SES, with liftoff of the SES-22 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral occurring at 5:04 p.m. EDT (2104 GMT). There was a two-hour window for SpaceX’s launch Wednesday, and the official launch weather outlook predicted an 80% chance of favorable weather for liftoff.
19 June	Falcon 9 Globalstar-2 F15 & others	Live coverage: SpaceX launches third Falcon 9 rocket in less than two days....view. SpaceX hauled a Globalstar communications satellite into orbit early Sunday from Cape Canaveral, pulling off the third Falcon 9 rocket flight in 36 hours, the fastest sequence of three missions by any commercial launch company in history. A spare spacecraft built more than a decade ago for Globalstar’s satellite phone and messaging network was tucked inside the Falcon 9 rocket’s payload shroud for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:27:36 a.m. EDT (0427:36 GMT).
18 June	SARah 1	Live coverage: SpaceX launches German military radar satellite from California....view. A four-ton, cloud-penetrating radar observation satellite for the German military soared into orbit Saturday from California on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, beginning a 10-year mission to collect all-weather reconnaissance imagery. The Falcon 9 rocket flashed to life and climbed away from its launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7:19:52 a.m. PDT (10:19:52 a.m. EDT; 1419:52 GMT), rumbling through a low-altitude fog layer before breaking into a clear sky for rest of the ascent into space with Germany’s SARah 1 radar imaging satellite.
8 June	Nilesat 301	Live coverage: SpaceX rocket hauls Egyptian telecom satellite toward geosynchronous orbit....view. SpaceX launched an Egyptian communications satellite toward a high-altitude geostationary orbit Wednesday from Cape Canaveral. It was the first commercial launch of a geostationary payload this year, another sign of a market shift toward smaller, lower-orbiting communications satellites. With the successful launch Wednesday, the Nilesat 301 satellite began a 15-year mission to provide Ultra HD television broadcast services and internet connectivity over Egypt and other parts of Africa and the Middle East.
25 May	Transporter-5	Live coverage: SpaceX launches rideshare mission, lands another Falcon booster....view. Fifty-nine small satellites and hosted experiments launched Wednesday at 2:35 p.m. EDT (1835 GMT) from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The reusable Falcon booster returned to Florida’s Space Coast for landing about eight-and-a-half minutes later. The mission (Transporter-5) was the fifth for SpaceX’s Transporter smallsat rideshare program.
17 April	NROL-85	Live coverage: SpaceX launches classified NRO satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base....view. A spectacular launch from Cape Canaveral just after sunset Monday delivered to orbit SpaceX hauled a classified payload NROL-85 into orbit for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency Wednesday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, accomplishing another successful launch and landing on the second of three Falcon 9 rocket missions planned this week.
1 April	Transporter-4	Live coverage: SpaceX launches and lands rocket National Reconnaissance Office mission....view. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a classified payload. NROL-85 at dawn Sunday for the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency, and landed the booster stage back at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg at 6:13 a.m. PDT (9:13 a.m. EDT; 1313 GMT) Sunday.
2 February	NROL-87	Live coverage: SpaceX launches classified NRO satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base....view. A spectacular launch from Cape Canaveral just after sunset Monday delivered to orbit SpaceX hauled a classified payload NROL-87 into orbit for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency Wednesday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, accomplishing another successful launch and landing on the second of three Falcon 9 rocket missions planned this week.
31 January	CSG-2	Live coverage: SpaceX launches Italian COSMO-SkyMed radar satellite....view. A spectacular launch from Cape Canaveral just after sunset Monday delivered to orbit Italy’s second satellite in a new generation of COSMO-SkyMed radar remote sensing spacecraft. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket put on a memorable sky show over Florida’s Space Coast during its climb into space and return to Earth.
13 January	Transporter-3	Live coverage: SpaceX launches 105 customer satellites on third Transporter rideshare mission....view. SpaceX launched 105 small satellites from Cape Canaveral on the company’s third Transporter rideshare mission Thursday, deploying payloads for commercial remote sensing companies, communications and data relay startups, and foreign governments.
2021
18/19 December	Türksat 5B	Live coverage: SpaceX two-for-two in company’s first Falcon 9 launch doubleheader....view. Fifteen hours after hurling a package of Starlink internet satellites into orbit from California, SpaceX launched a high-power geostationary communications spacecraft for Turkey designated Türksat 5B from Cape Canaveral late Saturday, the first time two Falcon 9 rockets have flown on the same day.
9 December	IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)	Live coverage: SpaceX launches NASA X-ray astronomy satellite....view. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) Thursday from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 deployed into orbit NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft, an X-ray astronomy mission to study black holes and neutron stars.
2 December	Starlink 2-3/Rideshare	Live coverage: SpaceX sets a new record Thursday for the most missions by the company’s Falcon rocket family in a year....view. SpaceX delivered 48 more Starlink internet satellites and two small hitchhiker payloads, Blacksky Global 12 & 13 two remote sensing microsatellites that hitched a ride to space on the Falcon 9 rocket Thursday night join eight others in BlackSky’s active constellation.
24 Nov	DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)	Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission.....view. A first-of-its-kind asteroid deflection experiment lifted off overnight from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SpaceX launched NASA’s DART mission on a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:21 a.m. EST Wednesday (0621 GMT; 10:21 p.m. PST Tuesday) on a 10-month mission to collide with a near-Earth asteroid, proving a technique that could protect Earth from a future threat from space.
30 Jun	Transporter-2	Live coverage: SpaceX rocket lands on land after 88-satellite rideshare launch....view. For the first time this year, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster has landed back on land after supporting the US East Coast’s third polar launch in half a century. Known as Transporter-2, the mission is SpaceX’s second dedicated rideshare launch known as Transporter-2 as part of its own Smallsat Program.
17 Jun	GPS III SV05 Neil Armstrong	Live coverage: SpaceX launches first national security mission on reused commercial rocket....view. A fresh GPS navigation beacon destined to replace a nearly 17-year-old satellite rode into orbit from Cape Canaveral on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Thursday, marking the first time risk-averse U.S. military space officials have agreed to launch a national security mission on a reused commercial booster.
6 Jun	SXM-8 (Sirius XM)	Live coverage: SpaceX delivers SXM-8 for SiriusXM with successful midnight hour launch....view. A Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral early Sunday with a high-power digital radio satellite for SiriusXM, marking SpaceX’s 18th Falcon 9 flight since Jan. 1, but just the third dedicated to external commercial customers in a year dominated by missions building out the company’s own Starlink internet network.
15 May	Starlink L26/Rideshare	Live coverage: SpaceX ramps up launch rate fifth Falcon 9 mission in three weeks....view. SpaceX delivered 52 more Starlink internet satellites and two small hitchhiker payloads, Tyvak 0130 and Capella to orbit after a booming blastoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday evening. Tyvak 0130, built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, is a small spacecraft manufacturer in Irvine, California. Capella, a San Francisco based company, sent its fourth radar satellite with separated from the top end of the stack of Starlink satellites about one hour into the Saturday’s mission.
9 March	U.S. Air Force	U.S. Air Force Awards SpaceX A $159.7 Million Contract For National Security Launches....view. The United States Department of Defense published a document today, March 9, announcing it awarded Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) contracts under the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 program. The Phase 2 contract will be composed of at least thirty Pentagon space missions that are slated to take place over a 5-year period, beginning in 2022. The U.S. Air Force awarded SpaceX a total of $159.7 million to launch 40% of the planned missions, starting with the deployment of USSF-36 and NROL-69 payloads. The missions will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
24 January	SpaceX	SpaceX smashes record with launch of 143 small satellites....view. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday from Cape Canaveral with 143 small satellites, a record number of spacecraft on a single mission, giving a boost to startup space companies and stressing the U.S. military’s tracking network charged with sorting out the locations of all objects in orbit....view. The mission known as Transporter 1 is the first in a series of launches providing low cost rideshare for businesses and governments to deploy smallsats opening new opportunities for many.
7 January	Türksat Satellite Communications and Cable TV Operations Company	SpaceX launches first mission of 2021. For its first mission of the year, SpaceX launched the Airbus-built Turksat 5A communications satellite to cover Turkey, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa with data relay and television broadcast services. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 9:15 p.m. EST Thursday (0215 GMT Friday).

December 2020 -
31st: SpaceX wins $150 million contract to launch Space Development Agency satellites....view. Washington — SpaceX has been awarded a $150.4 million contract to launch as many as 28 satellites for the Pentagon’s space agency, the Defense Department announced Dec. 31. The contract is to launch a mix of small and medium spacecraft of different sizes that the Space Development Agency is acquiring from multiple vendors. That includes 20 data-relay satellites known as the Transport Layer and the other eight are missile-warning satellites known as the Tracking Layer. SpaceX will launch these satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
19th: SpaceX closes out record-setting year of launches from Florida’s Space Coast....view. SpaceX hurled a secret cargo designated NROL-108 into space for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency Saturday, the 30th rocket launch to fly into Earth orbit from pads on Florida’s Space Coast in 2020. The Falcon 9 flight broke an annual record for missions to reach orbit from the Florida spaceport that stood for 54 years.
13th: SiriusXM satellite rides SpaceX rocket into orbit....view. A hefty new satellite to beam SiriusXM radio programming across North America rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Sunday from Cape Canaveral on course to replace an aging broadcast station launched more than 15 years ago. SiriusXM’s SXM 7 spacecraft, built by Maxar in Palo Alto, California, is the first of two new-generation digital broadcasting satellites set to join the company’s fleet in the coming months.
November 2020 -
21st: International satellite launches to extend measurements of sea level rise....view. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 9:17:08 a.m. PST (12:17:08 p.m. EST; 1717:08 GMT) Saturday from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying the Sentinel 6A, or Jason-CS A, satellite. The satellite is also named Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich in honor of the late director of NASA’s Earth science division. The satellite is a joint mission between the European Space Agency, NASA, NOAA, CNES and Eumetsat to continue the sea level data record previously collected by the Jason series of satellites. Sentinel 6A, built by Airbus Defense and Space and Thales Alenia Space in Europe, joins the European Commission’s Copernicus Earth observation satellite network.
17th: The next customer launch is the Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich from SLC-4E, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on the 21st. Test firing of the new booster B1063 has now been completed successfully.
5th: SpaceX launches GPS navigation satellite from Cape Canaveral....view. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday from Cape Canaveral with the U.S. Space Force’s newest third-generation Global Positioning System navigation satellite, GPS III Space Vehicle 04, helping clear the way for the launch of SpaceX’s first operational Crew Dragon astronaut mission later this month.
September 2020 -
26th: NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for IMAP Mission....view. IMAP will help researchers better understand the boundary of the heliosphere, a magnetic barrier surrounding our solar system.
25th: Recent tweet from SpaceX, 'Static fire test complete – targeting Tuesday, September 29 for Falcon 9's launch of the GPS III Space Vehicle 04 mission'.
August 2020 -
30th: SpaceX launches first polar orbit mission from Florida in decades....view. Vaulting away from Cape Canaveral on an unusual southerly trajectory, a Falcon 9 rocket dodged stormy weather and successfully placed an Argentine radar observation satellite into an orbit over Earth’s poles Sunday on SpaceX’s 100th launch.
20th: SES orders two more Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX....view. SES announced Thursday it has tapped SpaceX for two additional Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral to deliver more Boeing-built O3b mPower broadband satellites into orbit, adding to a pair of Falcon 9 flights ordered by SES last year to launch the first batch of mPower platforms beginning in late 2021.
7th: ULA, SpaceX win landmark multibillion-dollar launch agreements with Pentagon....view.
July 2020 -
23rd: SpaceX rocket nosecone catch years in the making caught on camera....view. In a milestone more than three years in the making, SpaceX has successfully caught both halves of a Falcon 9 rocket’s payload fairing (i.e. nosecone) and shared videos of the historic feat.
20th: SpaceX delivers South Korea’s first military satellite ANASIS-II, into on-target orbit....view. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket deployed South Korea’s first dedicated military satellite into orbit Monday a half-hour after a fiery launch from Cape Canaveral, helping fulfill an agreement between Lockheed Martin and the South Korean government in exchange for Korea’s purchase of F-35 fighter jets six years ago.
The booster for this launch flew on a previous mission, Crew Demo-2, which delivered astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the ISS at the end of May. The launch represented the fastest Falcon 9 first stage turnaround time to date (1m 20d) and first dual fairing half catch....view. SpaceX Falcon 9 breaks NASA Shuttle reuse record, catches full rocket nosecone....view.
13th: There is currently a launch delay for the ANASIS-II mission due on the 14th. A new date has not been announced....view.
12th: Falcon 9 • ANASIS-II - SLC-40, Cape Canaveral, Florida - Static fire test complete – targeting July 14 for launch. The booster supporting this mission previously launched NASA astronauts Behnken and Hurley to the Space Station.
-do- SpaceX test-fires Falcon 9 rocket launch next week with Korean military satellite....view.
June 2020 -
30th: - U.S. Air Force: Falcon 9 • GPS 3 SV03 - Cape Canaveral, Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has launched the U.S. Air Force’s third third-generation navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System. The satellite is built by Lockheed Martin. The Air Force had previously planned to launch the second GPS 3-series satellite on this mission....view. Remember the primary mission was to deploy the GPS 3 SV03 satellite....view.