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Our team is prepping Eclipse's LOx transfer line for testing! Built using a similar carbon composite architecture as Alpha's LOx tanks, at full thrust the line carries almost 4000 lbm/s of liquid oxygen to Eclipse's 7 Miranda engines. That's like driving a midsize sedan through…
Shortly before the next flight, I will do a live technical update on Starship, going over progress to date and engineering/production/launch plans for the future.
New SpaceX website looks great!Lots of details on upcoming launches, not just the ones a day or two away. Awesome new Cape Canaveral Starship pad render, too. SpaceX.com
Dozens of orbiting Starlink satellites streak visibly at dawn, photobombed by comet C/2024.
Imagine where we’ll be in 75 more 🤙🏻
TODAY is the 75th anniversary of the first ever rocket launch from Cape Canaveral!🚀 Seen here on July 24, 1950, Bumper 8 was based on a German V-2 missile. Less than 400ft away, the photographers were knocked to the ground - well they'd never witnessed a rocket launch before 1/2
A Soyuz 2.1b rocket is set to launch from Site 1S at Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia, carrying two Ionosfera-M satellites into a Sun-synchronous orbit. nasaspaceflight.com/2025/07/ionosf… Launch is scheduled for Friday, July 25, at 05:54 UTC and will see Soyuz fly on a northern trajectory…
And live views. Booster 13 aft flying again, kinda! Thanks to Jack (@thejackbeyer) for the view. nsf.live/starbase
Booster 13’s salvaged aft end at the Massey Outpost this afternoon waiting to be lifted. @NASASpaceflight
Join us 🔴LIVE🔴 Today, July 24th, from 2:00 p.m. CDT / 19:00 UTC on @NASASpaceflight Starbase Live stream for another Raptorside Chat. We’ll discuss the latest developments at Starbase and beyond and try to answer any questions you may have! nsf.live/starbase
Booster 13’s salvaged aft end at the Massey Outpost this afternoon waiting to be lifted. @NASASpaceflight
SpaceX's Bob steaming into port with the catch of the day, two flight-proven fairing halves on deck after supporting O3b mPOWER two days ago. Recovering these fairings is a big deal. They are rather expensive rocket items, and reusing them saves money. nsf.live/spacecoast
GSLV-F16 - Post Integration, reaching Its Last Pre-Launch Position. Watch 🎥 this Movement of GSLV-F16 from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to the Umbilical Tower (UT). We are getting closer to liftoff with each step! #NISAR #GSLVF16 #ISRO #NASA #SpaceForEarth
"Blue Ring's first mission is expected to launch in spring 2026 with initial injection into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)"
The first Blue Ring mission will carry @SCOUTdotspace’s next-generation space domain awareness Owl sensors. Read more: bit.ly/4lUk58H
Earlier this morning, ULA rolled out the Vulcan rocket fairing carrying the USSF-106 payload as they continue to prepare Vulcan for its next mission at SLC-41! @NASASpaceflight nsf.live/spacecoast
You ever see the salvaged remains of the world's largest rocket transported down a two lane road by a semi truck in the middle of the night? Yeah, me too a couple times. @NASASpaceflight
Booster 13's remains returned home after being lifted out of the Gulf, while future vehicles continue their preparations, as is the case with the two launch pads at SpaceX's Starbase. ➡️youtu.be/877P0ETxbDI
"Yikes!" "You Bet!" "Concur!" "We Don't Need Anymore of These!" July 23rd - on this day in 1999, NASA launched the Chandra X-ray Observatory from KSC onboard Shuttle Columbia (STS-93). It was the heaviest payload ever launched by the Space Shuttle. Columbia's crew included…
Step by step, our journey to the Moon later this year continues. Here’s a cool pic from our Surface Coating Facility, where the team applied spray-on foam insulation, or SOFI, to our Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander’s mid-module. This insulation controls cryogenic heat leaking while in…
LAUNCH! SpaceX Falcon 9 B1081-16 launches NASA TRACERS Mission from SLC-4E, Vandenberg. @NASASpaceflight Overview: nasaspaceflight.com/2025/07/nasa-t…
SpaceX Falcon 9 B1081-16 will make a second attempt to launch TRACERS from SLC-4E in a few hours. Yesterday's scrub was no fault of the rocket or launch site, but due to an FAA-related outage. Ryan Caton explains: nasaspaceflight.com/2025/07/faa-fa…
With this fleet leader booster going for Flight 30, what's your guess on how many missions they can stretch to with Falcons? 40? 50? (Including new boosters entering the fleet.) Remember, Falcon is not going away for many years, even after Starship becomes fully operational.
Falcon 9 Booster looks to be B1067-30 is rolling out ahead of its 30th Flight! If it is B1067, Flight 30 to add to its resume, SpaceX really pushing reuse as far as they can @NASASpaceflight nsf.live/spacecoast
Today At Starbase July 23 2025 Ship LB Jill with a recovered section of Booster 13 arrived at the Port of Brownsville. Continuing to watch Launch Site and Massey Test Site work. Watch all the current happenings on NSF's Starbase Live - youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQ… Also be…