Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Published: 1 Nov 2026
An explainer on why Starship's heat shield uses hexagonal tiles and why full reuse depends on how much work the shield needs between flights.
Mission: 2026Published: 1 Nov 2026
A full engineering breakdown of Starship V3, covering methane propellant, stainless steel, heat shield tiles and Raptor engines.
An explainer on why Starship's Super Heavy booster has 33 Raptor engines, giving four reasons: redundancy, avoiding the combustion instability that troubled huge engines like the F-1, the throttle…
The video describes NASA's revised Artemis 3 plan, announced by Administrator Jared Isaacman on October 23: a crewed Earth-orbit rehearsal in summer 2027 rather than a Moon landing.
Starship Flight 14 lifted off from Starbase on September 28, 2026, reached orbit for the first time and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, all of which made contact.
Mission: 2024Published: 1 Nov 2026
This explainer covers how SpaceX catches its Super Heavy booster with the launch tower's two arms instead of landing it on legs.
A retelling of Starship's build-fly-fail-fix test campaign, from the Starhopper hop and the SN prototypes through flights 1 to 14.
Published: 31 Oct 2026
NASA's reimagined Artemis III is described as a 14-day crewed Earth-orbit mission planned for summer 2027, in which an Orion crew of four docks with a Blue Origin Blue Moon Mark II prototype and a…
Published: 23 Oct 2026
NASA leaders at Kennedy Space Center updated progress on assembling the SLS for Artemis 3, a low Earth orbit docking-test mission planned for summer 2027, and on plans for an Artemis 4 crewed lunar…
A roundup of space news from early to late October, covering launches from Korea, China, the US and Japan, including Japan's H3 launch of the Martian Moons Explorer.
Mission: 2026Published: 20 Oct 2026
NASASpaceflight's live webcast of the Falcon 9 launch of Bandwagon-5, SpaceX's 23rd Smallsat Rideshare mission, from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral.
Published: 18 Oct 2026
A live conversation with two Goddard team members about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which launched on a Falcon Heavy on August 30 and is traveling to Sun-Earth L2.
Published: 15 Oct 2026
NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 held a postflight news conference at Johnson Space Center after returning to Earth on Oct.
Mission: 2026Published: 15 Oct 2026
NASA's live coverage follows the uncrewed SpaceX cargo Dragon of the 35th commercial resupply mission as it approached and docked to the International Space Station's Harmony zenith port.
Mission: 2026Published: 13 Oct 2026
NASASpaceflight's live broadcast of the Falcon 9 launch of the CRS-35 cargo Dragon (C211, fourth flight) from SLC-40 on October 13, with an instantaneous window at 06:33:44 EDT.
NASA and SpaceX launched the 35th commercial resupply services mission on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:33 a.m.
Live coverage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch of 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites on the Starlink 15-25 mission from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Published: 8 Oct 2026
NASA's live coverage follows Dragon Freedom carrying Crew-12 from deorbit burn through re-entry to splashdown off Los Angeles at 8:34 a.m.
Official broadcast of the NASA SpaceX Crew-12 return, in which Dragon Freedom carried Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA's Sophie Adenot and Andrey Fedyaev to a splashdown off Los Angeles at 8:34 a.m.
Published: 7 Oct 2026
A roundup of space news from roughly the last two weeks before October 6th.
ESA's broadcast follows the Crew-12 Dragon Freedom spacecraft undocking from the International Space Station on 7 October 2026 with Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot and Andrey Fedyaev.
NASA and SpaceX coverage of Dragon Freedom undocking from the International Space Station with the four Crew-12 members at 8:05 a.m.
NASA's coverage follows Crew-12 as the hatch between Dragon Freedom and the International Space Station closes at 5:05 a.m.
ESA's broadcast of NASA's Mission Control Houston coverage shows the Crew-12 hatch closure between Dragon Freedom and the International Space Station, at 5:05 a.m.
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