SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Axiom-4 crew of four astronauts lifts off from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A on a mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, June 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Steve Nesius
USA

Astronauts from India, Poland, Hungary launched on first space station mission

The four-member crew was carried aloft on a towering SpaceX launch vehicle consisting of a Crew Dragon capsule perched atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off carrying NASA's SpaceX Crew-9, Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, to the International Space Station from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, September 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
USA

US FAA authorises SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle for Monday flight

The NASA logo hangs in the Mission Operations Control Center at Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, U.S., October 26, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
USA

SpaceX, NASA to launch Crew-9 mission next month

SpaceX's Falcon 9 is pictured launching satellites to orbit in space after it lifted off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US, in this screenshot obtained from a handout video released on July 12, 2024. Photo: SpaceX/Handout via REUTERS
Tech

SpaceX's Falcon 9 grounded after failure dooms batch of Starlink satellites

NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin launch to the International Space Station, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, 3 March 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Joe Skipper
Tech

SpaceX launches eighth long-duration crew for International Space Station orbit

Jared Isaacman. Photo: Collected
Science

For billionaire Jared Isaacman, the space tourism era begins

SpaceX founder and chief engineer Elon Musk attends a post-launch news conference to discuss the SpaceX Crew Dragon astronaut capsule in-flight abort test at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US January 19, 2020. Photo :Reuters
Science

SpaceX launches record spacecraft in cosmic rideshare program

This handout image taken on July 17, 2020, and released by The European Space Agency (ESA) on Nov 19, 2020, shows the Sentinel-6 satellite, dedicated to measuring sea levels as part of the European Union’s Copernicus Earth Observation. The Sentinel-6 satellite, which will measure sea levels, is scheduled for launch on Saturday (Nov 21) will continue with unparalleled precision an almost thirty-year mission, whose data are crucial for observing climate change at work on the seas the globe and predict its consequences for human activity. - AFP
Climate Change

Satellite to track rising seas as climate warms

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on the first operational NASA commercial crew mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Baur
World+Biz

SpaceX launches astronauts into space