SpaceX has one more launch scheduled from Southern California before Christmas. A Falcon 9 rocket will deploy 27 Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit. The launch is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 16, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base.

A decade of Falcon 9 boosters thundering back to Cape Canaveral’s Landing Zone 2 ended with a classified payload bound for orbit. The National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-77 mission, launched at 2:16 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 40, marked not ...

The number of orbital launch attempts worldwide last year surpassed the record 2024 flight rate by 25 percent, with SpaceX and China accounting for the bulk of the launch activity, Aviation Week & Space Technology reports.