Falcon 9

A Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center shortly after 1 am EST on Wednesday.

A July 2024 Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satellites reached orbit, but the upper stage malfunctioned during a relight to circularize the orbit, resulting in satellites deployed in orbits too low to survive.

SpaceX performed 134 Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches in 2024, up from 96 in 2023.

The 2024-12-28 Falcon 9 launch was the 47th and final orbital launch of the year from Vandenberg, a launch cadence not seen from that facility since the 1960s.

The California Coastal Commission voted in October to reject a consistency determination from the Space Force seeking to increase Vandenberg Falcon 9 launches from 36 to 50 per year.

The Falcon 9 carrying the four Astranis satellites lifted off at 12:00 a.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

The Falcon 9 placed the four Astranis satellites into a super-synchronous geostationary transfer orbit a little over half an hour after liftoff.

Spacecoin’s debut connectivity satellite launched on SpaceX’s 2024-12-21 Falcon 9 rideshare mission to low Earth orbit.

NASA postponed the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) launch on a Falcon 9 from spring 2025 to no earlier than September 2025.

The Falcon 9 first stage on Bandwagon-2 was making its 21st flight and landed back at the Vandenberg launch site 8 minutes and 15 seconds after liftoff as the second stage completed its burn.

The first 425 Project reconnaissance satellite launched on a Falcon 9 in December of the previous year and the second launched on the Bandwagon-1 mission in April.

A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 6:34 a.m. Eastern on the Bandwagon-2 mission.

The Mega bus design includes a 3-meter by 3-meter payload deck and can stack up to 10 units in a single Falcon 9 rocket fairing or equivalent vehicle.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched Astra 1P on 2024-06-20 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

SEOPS acquired a dedicated Falcon 9 mission to geostationary transfer orbit on 2024-11-19 that is planned to launch in late 2028.

Under the partnership, SEOPS will offer its late-2028 Falcon 9 GTO mission, other innovative capacity programs, and its experience managing complex rideshare missions.

SES made contact with the newly launched O3b mPower satellites after their 5:26 p.m. Eastern launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander will separate first from the Falcon 9, after which the Falcon 9 upper stage will perform another burn and then ispace’s Resilience lander will be deployed.