The rocket carried a lunar lander named Athena which will reach the Moon in about a week. Once there, it will measure gases from the lunar soil near the Moon's south pole. The Artemis mission's stated long-term goal is to establish a permanent base on the Moon.
Marek Fagasik, a Polish farmer from the village of Śliwno, found some of the Falcon 9 wreckage in his field, after a passerby alerted him, according to the English-language news channel TVP World, which covers Central Europe and Poland. Fagasik told a local newspaper he's exploring options for compensation.
SpaceX is targeting a late Wednesday night launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit.The rocket is scheduled to lift off at 10:34 p.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On board is the Lunar Trailblazer orbiter, which was built by Lockheed Martin on its Waterton campus in Littleton.
SpaceX launched its second lunar mission of 2025, just over a month after flying the Firefly Blue Ghost and HAKUTO-R M2 Resilience landers to the Moon atop a single Falcon 9. Another Falcon 9, this time with the Intuitive Machines IM-2 NOVA-C lander on board,
Live updates from Wednesday's scrubbed early morning SpaceX Starlink 12-13 launch attempt of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX will attempt to land a Falcon 9 first-stage booster atop the Just Read the Instructions drone ship in the Bahamas for the first time. Liftoff of this Starlink 10-12 mission is scheduled for 6:21 p.m. EST Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...
Vandenberg Space Force Base’s public affairs team hit on the idea of taking the reenlistment photo during a rocket launch.
Both SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration have confirmed the Starlink 12-13 mission is targeting a late Sunday liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40. SpaceX has confirmed they are targeting an 11:42 p.m. launch. Backup opportunities exist until 3:42 a.m. Monday.
SpaceX undertook a Falcon 9 mission with a difference on Tuesday night, landing the booster in a different country from which it was launched.