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Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot payload processing facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The site is used to prepare its Project Kuiper satellites ahead of launches on Blue Origin’s New Glenn, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and United Launch Alliances’s Vulcan and Atlas 5 rockets. Image: Amazon Amazon is hoping to get a good rhythm going with the launch and deployment of Project Kuiper, its 3,232-satellite internet constellation, which began operational flights in April. The tech giant said on Thursday that its nearly $140 million investment in Florida is a cornerstone to making that happen. While shown in the background of photos and hinted at in other public relations materials during its first three launch campaigns, Amazon confirmed on July 24 that its...

NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission launches at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The TRACERS mission will study magnetic reconnection around Earth — a process in which electrically charged plasmas exchange energy in the atmosphere — to understand how the Sun’s solar wind interacts with the magnetosphere, Earth’s protective magnetic shield. Image: SpaceX SpaceX launched twin satellites for NASA Wednesday that will study how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field, creating constantly changing and occasionally dangerous “space weather” affecting satellites, electrical...

NASA’s two TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) are encapsulated along with five other satellites ahead of launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Image: NASA Update July 22, 6 p.m. EDT: Added comment from the FAA. NASA’s next trip to space will be a rideshare mission with nine other satellites sharing a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. However, it has to wait at least another day after a last minute scrub of the mission. About 45 seconds before the planned liftoff, the SpaceX launch director called, “Hold, hold, hold” and declared that the mission was aborted due to “air space concerns.” Following the scrub, SpaceX took to social media to reiterate that it wasn’t able to proceed into launch “due to [Federal Aviation Administr...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned launch of SES’ ninth and tenth O3b mPOWER satellites. Image: SpaceX Update July 21, 5:52 p.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed the launch, targeting Tuesday, July 22. SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, July 22, for the launch of two satellites to medium Earth orbit, following a last minute scrub on Monday. Just about 11 seconds before liftoff was set to occur, the SpaceX launch director called “Hold, hold, hold!”, ending the launch attempt for the day. A reason for the scrub was not given by SpaceX either during its broadcast or subsequently when they posted on X that they would try to launch again on Tuesday. “Standing down from today’s launch of the @SES_Satellites O3b mPOWER mission and n...

File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position during sunset at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX Update July 19, 12:19 a.m. EDT: SpaceX adjusted the launch time.  SpaceX launched for a rare launch of its Starlink Version 2 Mini satellites into a polar orbit shortly after sunset on Friday night. The mission, dubbed Starlink 17-3, adds another 24 satellites into the company’s megaconstellation consisting of more than 7,900 satellites on orbit, according to statistics compiled by expert orbital tracker and astronomer, Jonathan McDowell. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 8:52 p.m. PDT (11:52 p.m. EDT / 0352 UTC).  The Falcon 9 first stage ...