Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
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22 December 2015
1 video perspective
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched 11 ORBCOMM second-generation satellites from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral on the ORBCOMM-2 mission.
Published 22 Dec 2015
21 December 2015
On December 21, 2015, SpaceX's Falcon 9 delivered 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit and landed the first stage of the rocket back on land.
Published 12 Jan 2016
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's On Air series looks at TIROS 1, the world's first weather satellite, launched in 1960.
Published 10 Sep 2026
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut hosts a watch-along of Rocket Lab's webcast for the Electron mission "Bridging the Swarm", which was to carry the NEONSAT-1A satellite for KAIST from Launch Complex 1…
Published 11 Dec 2025
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ESA's documentary covers two years of the Smile mission, a 50–50 collaboration between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Published 30 Sep 2026
Rocket Lab launched its 98th Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on the mission 'We're Not Hawking Around', its third dedicated launch for HawkEye 360.
Published 23 Oct 2026
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ESA's documentary traces Galileo and EGNOS from the 1990s, when Europe sought independence from GPS, through the GIOVE-A and GIOVE-B test satellites and the first operational launches.
Published 15 Oct 2026
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