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SpaceX & Launches
SpaceX and American rocket launches: Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon crew flights, national security launches for the Space Force, and each step toward sending people to Mars. Facts sourced and linked; our analysis clearly labeled.
SpaceX · Sat, Sep 26, 10:00 AM CT
SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts USSF-385 from Vandenberg; booster B1100 lands on OCISLY
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off at 9:01 a.m. CT Saturday from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, carrying the U.S. Space Force USSF-385 mission, a classified national-security payload; details were not released.
Breaking World News Update · Sat, Sep 26, 9:12 AM CT
World News Update: SpaceX launches USSF-385 from Vandenberg, California; Falcon 9 booster lands on droneship
Liftoff at 9:01 a.m. CT from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E), Vandenberg Space Force Base, California; booster B1100 landed successfully on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific Ocean at about 9:10 a.m. CT, SpaceX said.
NASA & Dragon · Sat, Sep 26, 8:19 AM CT
NASA names SpaceX Crew-14: four astronauts to fly Dragon to the space station no earlier than spring 2027
NASA said Thursday that NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Chris Birch will serve as commander and pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-14 mission, with JAXA astronaut Makoto Suwa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Arutyun Kiviryan as mission specialists, launching to the International Space Station no earlier than...
Breaking World News Update · Sat, Sep 26, 8:18 AM CT
World News Update: SpaceX set to launch USSF-385 from Vandenberg, California; Russian strikes kill 4 in Ukraine
SpaceX is targeting a Falcon 9 launch of the U.S. Space Force USSF-385 mission this morning from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, in a three-hour window that opens at 9:00 a.m. CT (7:00 a.m. PT).
