Discussion thread for SpaceX's Transporter 15 dedicated rideshare flight. Discussion thread for SpaceX Rideshare Program Launch targeting 28 November 2025 at 18:44:30 UTC (10:44 am PST) on Falcon 9 (booster 1071-30) to SSO. Booster successfully landed on Of Course I Still Love You.
SpaceX is targeting Sunday, June 22 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Transporter-14 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SpaceX F9 : TRACERS Rideshare : VSFB SLC-4E: 23 July 2025 (18:13 UTC)NASA selected TRACERS in 2019 as a heliophysics Small Explorer, or SMEX, mission, with a cost of no more than $115 million. At the time it was planned to launch as a secondary payload with another SMEX mission, the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH). In August 2022, though, NASA said that PUNCH would fly ...
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SpaceX recently made headlines for using a tower to catch a rocket booster after a launch. While this is undoubtedly a major technical achievement, can anyone explain in layman's terms why they wo...
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), in partnership with U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC), Space Launch Delta 45, and SpaceX, successfully launched the NROL-69 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on March 24, 2025, at 1:48 p.m. EDT.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the Axiom Mission 4 crew launches atop the Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station.
SpaceX tests all flight software on what can be called a table rocket. They lay out all the computers and flight controllers on the Falcon 9 on a table and connect them like they would be on the actual rocket. They then run a complete simulated flight on the components, monitoring performance and potential failures.
SpaceX F9 : Transporter-15 Rideshare : VSFB SLC-4E : 28 November 2025 18:44 UTCThe partnership involves integrating Astrolight’s ATLAS-1 optical terminal into PeakSat, a CubeSat mission that must enable laser communication from low Earth orbit (LEO) to ground stations in Greece. As part of this agreement, Astrolight will supply its ATLAS-1 optical terminal, which will serve as the primary ...
