Mission: SPHEREx & PUNCH – SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool ...

Service Provider: SpaceX – Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

The second Block 5 Falcon 9 – which includes the unflown core 1047 – conducted a Static Fire test SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral at around 5 pm Eastern on Wednesday. The launch is currently ...

Several launches are lined up for the coming weeks, including another one tomorrow, June 19th, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket will carry the Starlink 9-1 payload from Vandenberg Space Force ...

The Falcon 9 rocket landing. Credit: spacex The rocket, which is part of the Falcon 9's block 5, represents the company's assumed final version of its nine-engine workhorse of a rocket.

Known as Block 5, this version of the Falcon 9 is designed to be more survivable and require minimal servicing between flights. The company says its cheaper and faster to reuse the Block 5 than it ...