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.
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…
Published: 23 Oct 2026
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.
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.
Mission: 2026Published: 9 Oct 2026
NASA's live coverage shows the Cygnus XL spacecraft released from Canadarm2 at 11:44 a.m.
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.
Mission: 2026Published: 2 Oct 2026
NASA's live coverage follows Crew-13 from its 11:10 a.m.
Mission: 2026Published: 1 Oct 2026
After Crew-13 lifted off on a Falcon 9 on Oct.
NASA's live broadcast of the Crew-13 launch countdown, covering four crew members aboard Dragon Grace on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40, targeting liftoff at 11:10 a.m.
Mission: 2026Published: 30 Sep 2026
NASA held the prelaunch news conference for SpaceX Crew-13 on Sept.
Published: 25 Sep 2026
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut explains why the Super Heavy booster of Starship version 3 has three grid fins instead of four.
Published: 18 Sep 2026
SpaceX traces its reusability work from Grasshopper and the first Falcon 9 landing to a Starship that stayed afloat in the Indian Ocean after its flight.
Published: 16 Sep 2026
In a pre-departure news conference from orbit, the four Crew-12 members (NASA's Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA's Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev) recap their roughly seven…
Published: 1 Sep 2026
A roundup of space news from the second half of August.
Published: 30 Oct 2025
A live read-through of SpaceX's press release on its Starship Human Landing System for NASA's Artemis program, with new renders and hardware photos.
A tour of the range at Vandenberg Space Force Base, produced with the U.S.
Mission: 2025Published: 16 Oct 2025
Everyday Astronaut hosts a live watch-along of SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch of 21 Lockheed Martin satellites for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Transport Layer from Vandenberg, with the…
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