Wider SpaceX Coverage
SpaceX coverage from the past six months that reaches beyond Starbase: Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, Starlink, Dragon, and the pads at Cape Canaveral, Kennedy, and Vandenberg. Headlines link straight to the outlet that reported them. Where a story leans on a program or vehicle that takes explaining, we explain it.
Updated September 25, 2026 · 338 stories
SpaceX runs several programs at once, and the names blur together fast. Falcon 9 is the workhorse rocket that flies most weeks from Florida and California. Starlink is the satellite internet constellation those rockets mostly carry. Dragon is the capsule that flies cargo and crew to the International Space Station. Starship, the vehicle built and flown at Starbase, is the one meant to eventually replace Falcon. Stories about all of them land here; the Starbase-specific ones have their own stream.
Google will launch its first Project Suncatcher AI satellite on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare next week.
Transporter and Bandwagon are SpaceX's rideshare missions: one rocket splitting its payload bay among many small satellites from different customers.
Exolaunch, a company best known for arranging launches of satellites, is moving into microgravity research services by buying a SpaceX Starfall mission.
Surviving reentry is the hard part of reusing the upper stage: it comes back through plasma hot enough to strip the ceramic tiles that protect the hull.
PARIS, The satellite industry is coming to grips with SpaceX’s plans to end commercial Falcon 9 launches in the next few years, creating a significant, if temporary, gap in access to orbit.
Falcon 9 is the workhorse: a partly reusable two-stage rocket that flies most weeks from Florida and California, and the vehicle Starship is eventually meant to replace.
For some time now, the Ukrainian government has been seeking SpaceX’s authorization for the use of Starlink up to 200 kilometers inside Russia. Starlink has long provided high-speed connectivity to...
Starlink is SpaceX's satellite internet constellation. It is the payload on most Falcon 9 launches, which is why those flights come in such steady batches.
A total of five orbital launches are scheduled this week. SpaceX will launch its Falcon...
Falcon 9 is the workhorse: a partly reusable two-stage rocket that flies most weeks from Florida and California, and the vehicle Starship is eventually meant to replace.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has established a Temporary Flight Restriction over SpaceX’s McGregor, Texas, rocket development and test facility, a move widely viewed as preparation for...
Starbase flights are gated by federal and county sign-off: the FAA licenses the launch, and Cameron County posts the Highway 4 and beach closures that go with it.
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral), A federal judge on Monday denied conservation groups’ attempt to pause a land swap between the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge and SpaceX. In a...
Starbase is wedged between a state park and a national wildlife refuge, so SpaceX expanding its footprint there means land swaps and beach access fights, not just construction.
Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled during a window that opens at 6:47 p.m. PDT (9:47 p.m. EDT / 0147 UTC). It will be the 81st Starlink mission of the year.
Falcon 9 is the workhorse: a partly reusable two-stage rocket that flies most weeks from Florida and California, and the vehicle Starship is eventually meant to replace.
NASA just gave SpaceX a $946 million contract for three more astronaut missions through 2030.
Crew and cargo runs to the International Space Station are the flights with people or perishable science aboard, which is why their schedules slip far less than test flights do.
TAMPA, Fla., The third and final terabit-class ViaSat-3 broadband satellite has entered service over the Americas, the U.S. operator announced Sept. 17, days after SpaceX launched the final three...
PARIS, NASA has proceeded with plans to purchase three additional SpaceX Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station, although the spacecraft’s long-term future remains uncertain.
Dragon is the capsule that carries cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station, currently the only US vehicle flying crew there.
TAMPA, Fla., SpaceX’s industry-shaking IPO more than three months ago continues to have far-reaching and mixed effects for other satellite broadband operators.
Financial coverage of SpaceX matters here for one reason: launch and Starlink revenue is what pays for the Starship program being tested at Starbase.
Tesla and SpaceX sue a small Illinois firm after cease and desist letters over Terafab.
PARIS, Space Cargo Unlimited has signed a contract to fly payloads on SpaceX’s Starfall reentry vehicle as it builds out a broad spectrum of options for microgravity research and manufacturing.
Surviving reentry is the hard part of reusing the upper stage: it comes back through plasma hot enough to strip the ceramic tiles that protect the hull.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., The U.S. Space Force is giving SpaceX latitude to design one of the military’s new low-Earth orbit satellite networks, setting performance requirements rather than prescribing...
Military launch contracts are the steadiest money in the business, awarded in blocks years ahead, and they are a large part of what funds development work like Starship.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team received the first-ever Neil Armstrong Space Prize during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday night (Sept. 15).
The rocket will carry an unspecified number of satellites to orbit. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 7:18 p.m. PDT (10:18 p.m. EDT / 0218 UTC).
Vandenberg is the California launch site SpaceX uses for polar and sun-synchronous orbits, the trajectories Florida cannot reach safely.
SpaceX estimates it will need 2 million gallons of water per day, nearly 20 times what it purchased from the Brownsville Public Utilities Board in fiscal 2025.
SpaceX will launch its second classified mission for the U.S. Space Force in less than a week tonight (Sept. 15), and you can watch the action live.
Military launch contracts are the steadiest money in the business, awarded in blocks years ahead, and they are a large part of what funds development work like Starship.
Elon Musk hinted a Tesla-SpaceX merger could be coming, and Wall Street is taking notice.
The launch marks the 400th orbital flight from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff is scheduled during an 87-minute window that opens at 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 UTC).
SpaceX flies from two Florida pads, SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at Kennedy. Neither is Starbase, though a Starship pad at 39A is in work.
SpaceX lofted three of SES's O3b mPOWER communications satellites to orbit today (Sept. 13), on the 700th mission to date for the Falcon rocket family.
SpaceX launched three final O3b mPower satellites Sunday, finishing a lesser known SES satellite network.
Starlink is SpaceX's satellite internet constellation. It is the payload on most Falcon 9 launches, which is why those flights come in such steady batches.
Tesla teased an October 1 Roadster reveal, reviving years of delayed SpaceX thruster hover promises.
A SpaceX executive confirmed the next flight of the company’s Starship rocket will carry its first orbital payloads, setting the stage for work on direct-to-device and orbital data center systems.
Starlink is SpaceX's satellite internet constellation. It is the payload on most Falcon 9 launches, which is why those flights come in such steady batches.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched on Sunday, Aug. 30, atop a SpaceX...
The mission, dubbed USSF-153 mission, will launch an undisclosed number of satellites for the U.S. Space Force. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled during a three-hour...
Vandenberg is the California launch site SpaceX uses for polar and sun-synchronous orbits, the trajectories Florida cannot reach safely.
A space manufacturing startup has successfully tested hardware on a SpaceX launch as a first step toward producing semiconductors in space.
SpaceX launched the secret USSF-153 mission for the U.S. Space Force today (Sept. 10) from California's central coast.
Military launch contracts are the steadiest money in the business, awarded in blocks years ahead, and they are a large part of what funds development work like Starship.
Pentagon report puts NSSL procurement quantity at 337 launches and nearly $76 billion
Financial coverage of SpaceX matters here for one reason: launch and Starlink revenue is what pays for the Starship program being tested at Starbase.
The Roman Space Telescope launched beyond Earth on Aug. 30. And one of the most amazing parts of the liftoff was the Falcon Heavy rocket's boosters returning back to our planet, safe and sound.
Falcon Heavy is three Falcon 9 first stages strapped together, used for the heaviest payloads SpaceX flies. It launches rarely, a few times a year at most.
Five orbital launches are expected this week. Two Falcon 9s are expected to launch from...
SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 6), sending them up from California's central coast.
Boeing has delivered the final three of 13 O3b mPower broadband satellites to SES in Florida, where they are slated to launch to medium Earth orbit on a Falcon 9 later this month.
An incredible launch photo captures fire spewing from a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket during the launch of NASA's Roman Space Telescope on Aug. 30, 2026.
Falcon Heavy is three Falcon 9 first stages strapped together, used for the heaviest payloads SpaceX flies. It launches rarely, a few times a year at most.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 Starlink satellites from California early this morning (Sept. 2). It was the 35th flight for the rocket's first stage.
Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is currently scheduled for 1:18 a.m. PDT (4:18 a.m. EDT / 0818 UTC).
Vandenberg is the California launch site SpaceX uses for polar and sun-synchronous orbits, the trajectories Florida cannot reach safely.
Business leaders said the investment could expand water capacity, support jobs, and prepare Brownsville for industrial growth.
Elon Musk recently restated a fact that still defines SpaceX’s origin story: if Falcon 1’s fourth launch had failed, the company would not exist. The comment answered a reminder that after three...
SAN FRANCISCO – Planet’s second Tanager hyperspectral satellite and 18 SuperDoves have arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base for launch no earlier than October on the SpaceX Transporter-18...
Transporter and Bandwagon are SpaceX's rideshare missions: one rocket splitting its payload bay among many small satellites from different customers.
Space.com's Josh Dinner caught an amazing shot of NASA's Roman Space Telescope crossing the sun on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Here's how it happened in a Hobby Lobby parking lot.
Falcon Heavy is three Falcon 9 first stages strapped together, used for the heaviest payloads SpaceX flies. It launches rarely, a few times a year at most.
The launch of SpaceX's Crew-13 mission to the ISS, previously scheduled for Sept. 12, has been delayed due to an oxidizer leak on the Dragon spacecraft. A new target has not yet been announced.
Dragon is the capsule that carries cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station, currently the only US vehicle flying crew there.
A Falcon Heavy launched NASA’s newest flagship telescope Aug. 30 on a mission to study the nature of the universe and discover thousands of exoplanets.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Aug. 30, ushering in a new era for astronomy and our understanding of the cosmos.
NASA and SpaceX are set for the launch of NASA's next great space observatory...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is poised to lift off with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Aug. 30. This observatory is on a mission to usher in a new wave of astronomical discovery.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket early Sunday morning (Aug. 30). Here's how to watch it live.
SpaceX will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next great observatory, atop a Falcon Heavy rocket on Aug. 30. Here's what time it flies.
OpenAI will cut SpaceX-owned Cursor's model access in November, citing Musk's history of broken contracts.
Acquisition documents show the Pentagon sees no near-term alternative to SpaceX's Starshield satcom for some military aircraft
Classified launches fly with the payload details withheld and the webcast usually cut after the first stage separates, so coverage of them is thin by design.