NASA IS ABOUT TO LAUNCH A POWERFUL NEW EYE ON THE UNIVERSE - NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has been cleared for final launch preparations ahead of a targeted August 30 liftoff aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy. The powerful new observatory will probe cosmic expansion, the history of the universe, and distant exoplanets. NASA and SpaceX are targeting liftoff no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30. The telescope is scheduled to ride into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.   More
(Source: ScienceDaily - Aug 25)

SPACEX SENDS 27 STARLINK SATELLITES TO ORBIT ON 100TH FALCON ROCKET LAUNCH OF THE YEAR - SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites this morning (Aug. 22) on a milestone mission for the company's Falcon rocket family. A Falcon 9 carrying 27 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today at 3:25 a.m. EDT (0725 GMT; 12:25 a.m. local California time). It was the 99th Falcon 9 liftoff of the year, and the 100th Falcon mission of 2026 overall. The other flight was performed by a Falcon Heavy, which lofted the telecom satellite Viasat-3 F3 in April.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 24)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 29 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM CAPE CANAVERAL FOLLOWING LAST-MINUTE SCRUB - SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday morning. The flight followed a last-minute scrub on Thursday due to an undisclosed issue. The Starlink 10-39 mission adds another 29 broadband internet satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit megaconstellation. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 11:14 a.m. EDT (1514 UTC).   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 22)

WHITE HOUSE TARGETS SUPPORT FOR 1,000 LAUNCHES PER YEAR BY 2030 - The White House set a target for the U.S to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030 in a new National Security Presidential Memorandum released Thursday. That would be a massive jump increase in orbital launches over the next few years. In 2025, there were 193 orbital launches in the U.S. — 85% of which were SpaceX launches, according to BryceTech’s 2025 analysis. The White House called the new policy a “comprehensive, America First approach,” to launch a “golden age of space transportation.”    More
(Source: Via Satellite - Aug 22)

ROCKET LAB LAUNCHES PRIVATE JAPANESE EARTH-OBSERVING SATELLITE TO ORBIT - Rocket Lab launched a private Japanese satellite to orbit this morning (Aug. 20), adding to a growing constellation of Earth-observing spacecraft. An Electron vehicle lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site at 9:04 a.m. EDT (1304 GMT; 1:04 a.m. on Aug. 21 local New Zealand time), carrying aloft a radar satellite for the Tokyo-based company iQPS.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 21)

NASA SAYS MISSION TO SAVE SATELLITE HAS FAILED - A complicated mission to save a NASA satellite from burning up in the atmosphere has failed, the US space agency said Wednesday, August 19, as the rescue spacecraft could not be controlled. The Swift space telescope, which studies the most powerful explosions in the universe, will now likely plunge back to earth and disintegrate along the way later this year. The unprecedented $30 million dollar mission attempted to send a robot to grab the telescope and move it farther into orbit.   More
(Source: Le Monde - Aug 21)

ON 19 AUGUST 2026, SPACEX PUSHED ITS STARLINK CONSTELLATION PAST 11,000 SATELLITES IN ORBIT - At 04:01 UTC on 19 August 2026, a Falcon 9 rose from California carrying 24 more Starlink satellites. About an hour later, their deployment appears to have pushed SpaceX’s broadband constellation through another threshold: more than 11,000 Starlinks circling Earth. The number needs a definition and a timestamp. Some of those spacecraft are still climbing toward operational orbit, while others are descending toward reentry.    More
(Source: Space Daily - Aug 21)

LAST-MINUTE ABORT STALLS CAPE CANAVERAL STARLINK MISSION - An abort called in the last 30 seconds of its countdown on Thursday halted SpaceX from launching its 75th batch of Starlink satellites of the year. SpaceX didn’t provide a reason for the scrub prior to ending is broadcast. When it launches, Starlink 10-39 mission will add another 29 broadband internet satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit megaconstellation.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 21)

TAIWAN-MADE SATELLITE LAUNCHER FAILS FIRST TEST, TRIGGERS MISSILE PANIC - Taiwan’s first test of a locally developed satellite launch vehicle failed on Wednesday after the rocket veered off course, terrifying nearby villagers who mistook it for an incoming missile. The rocket was launched at around 6am local time from the Jiupeng missile testing base in southern Pingtung county. The base is operated by the government-backed National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST), Taiwan’s top weapons developer.   More
(Source: South China Morning Post - Aug 20)

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