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  1. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit, 26 Starlink V3s and an Early Return

    Mission: 2026Published: 29 Sep 2026

    Starship Flight 14 reached orbit on September 28 after a vacuum engine failed on ascent and the team polled go for orbit.

    View mission: Starship Flight 14 (2026)
    Outcome
    Partial success

  2. Starliner 1 and 2: NASA and Boeing Detail Fixes and 2028 Crew Flight

    Published: 28 Sep 2026

    NASA and Boeing leaders held a news conference at Kennedy Space Center on Starliner's return to flight.

    View mission: Starliner 1
    Vehicle
    Atlas V, Starliner, Vulcan

  3. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit and 26 Starlink V3 Deployed

    Mission: 2026Published: 28 Sep 2026

    Everyday Astronaut's live 4K coverage follows Starship Flight 14, the first attempt to put Starship into orbit, with 26 Starlink V3 satellites aboard.

    View mission: Starship Flight 14 (2026)
    Launch site
    Starbase, Texas

  4. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit and 26 V3 Starlink Satellites

    Mission: 2026Published: 28 Sep 2026

    SpaceX's Starship Flight 14 put the ship into orbit for the first time, 170 miles above the Earth, and deployed 26 V3 Starlink satellites.

    View mission: Starship Flight 14 (2026)
    Outcome
    Success

  5. Electron Launches the 13th StriX Radar Satellite for Synspective

    Mission: 2026Published: 26 Sep 2026

    Rocket Lab's Electron launched from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand with the 13th StriX radar satellite for Synspective.

    View mission: Owlright, Owlright, Owlright (2026)
    Vehicle
    Electron
    Launch site
    Launch Complex 1, Mahia, New Zealand
    Outcome
    Success

  6. Why Starship V3’s Super Heavy Booster Has Only Three Grid Fins

    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.

  7. Progress 96 Docks to Poisk After a 3-Day, 49-Orbit Chase

    Mission: 2026Published: 19 Sep 2026

    NASA's live coverage follows the unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 96 cargo ship through its final approach and automated docking to the Poisk module of the International Space Station.

    View mission: Progress 96 (2026)
    Vehicle
    Soyuz
    Launch site
    Baikonur Cosmodrome
    Outcome
    Success

  8. Owl By The Dozen: Electron Deploys a 12th StriX Radar Satellite

    Mission: 2026Published: 19 Sep 2026

    Rocket Lab launched Electron from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on 19 September 2026 with a StriX radar satellite for Synspective.

    View mission: Owl By The Dozen (2026)
    Vehicle
    Electron
    Launch site
    Launch Complex 1, Mahia, New Zealand
    Outcome
    Success

  9. Starship Ship 40: Towing a Floating Rocket Across the Indian Ocean

    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.

    Outcome
    Success

  10. Crew-12 Pre-Departure Briefing: Spacewalks, Science and Going Home

    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…

    View mission: Crew-12
    Outcome
    In progress

  11. China’s Many New Rockets: Private Firms and New Long Marches

    Published: 16 Sep 2026

    A survey of China's expanding family of launch vehicles since a 2014 State Council directive allowed private companies to build civil space infrastructure.

    Vehicle
    Long March

  12. Tiangong vs ISS: Why China’s Smaller Station Carries More Payload

    Published: 16 Sep 2026

    An analysis of China's Tiangong space station, which the video says is about a sixteenth the mass of the ISS yet carries 25 experiment cabinets against the ISS's 31 and 67 exposed payload slots…

    View mission: Tiangong space station
    Vehicle
    Long March
    Outcome
    In progress

  13. Progress 96 Launch: Soyuz 2.1b Sends 2.8 Tons to the ISS

    Mission: 2026Published: 16 Sep 2026

    NASA's live coverage follows the launch of the uncrewed Progress 96 cargo craft on a Soyuz 2.1b rocket from Baikonur, carrying 2.8 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 75 crew.

    View mission: Progress 96 (2026)
    Vehicle
    Soyuz
    Launch site
    Baikonur Cosmodrome, Pad 6, Site 31

  14. Vega C Launches FLEX and Sentinel-3C on a Shared Flight

    Mission: 2026Published: 15 Sep 2026

    A Vega C rocket lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana carrying ESA's FLEX satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite, using the new Vespa Plus R adapter to deliver them to…

    View mission: FLEX and Sentinel-3C (2026)
    Launch site
    Europe's Spaceport, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
    Outcome
    Success

  15. TIROS 1: The First Weather Satellite and Its Fuzzy First Images

    Published: 10 Sep 2026

    The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's On Air series looks at TIROS 1, the world's first weather satellite, launched in 1960.

    View mission: TIROS 1

  16. Stoke Space Nova Block 2: Billion-Dollar Reusable Rocket Redesign

    Published: 9 Sep 2026

    Scott Manley explains Stoke Space's new funding round of another billion dollars, bringing its total to $2.3 billion, and the Block 2 version of its Nova fully reusable rocket.

    Vehicle
    Nova

  17. Spacewalk 99: Adenot and Meir Replace Harmony Retroreflector

    Published: 1 Sep 2026

    NASA's live coverage of U.S. Spacewalk 99, in which ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir worked outside the International Space Station.

    View mission: Expedition 75

  18. Zhuque-3 Landing, Roman Telescope Launch and SpaceX’s Louisiana Plan

    Published: 1 Sep 2026

    A roundup of space news from the second half of August.

  19. Roman Space Telescope Launches on Falcon Heavy: NASA Briefing

    Published: 30 Aug 2026

    NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 7:26 a.m.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
    Launch site
    Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
    Outcome
    In progress

  20. Roman Space Telescope Launch on Falcon Heavy From Pad 39A

    Published: 30 Aug 2026

    NASA's live broadcast followed the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, set for 7:26 a.m.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
    Launch site
    Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
    Outcome
    In progress

  21. Falcon Heavy Launches the Roman Space Telescope Toward L2

    Published: 30 Aug 2026

    Everyday Astronaut hosted live coverage of Falcon Heavy launching NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
    Launch site
    Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
    Outcome
    Success

  22. Roman Space Telescope Prelaunch Briefing: Falcon Heavy, Weather

    Published: 29 Aug 2026

    NASA and SpaceX hold the prelaunch news conference for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, targeting a Falcon Heavy liftoff from pad 39A on August 30 at 7:26 a.m.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
    Launch site
    Kennedy Space Center LC-39A

  23. Roman Space Telescope Science Briefing Ahead of Launch

    Published: 29 Aug 2026

    NASA's science news conference, held a day before the scheduled Aug.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

  24. Roman Space Telescope: Hubble-Sized Mirror, 200 Times the View

    Published: 28 Aug 2026

    The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA flagship infrared survey telescope with a Hubble-sized 2.4 m mirror and a 300-megapixel wide field instrument.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope