The 86th orbital launch from the Space Coast in 2025 also marked a milestone for SpaceX with the 500th successful landing of a Falcon 9 rocket booster. The early Thursday morning launch came as the ...

How Falcon 9 was built to come home SpaceX’s breakthrough began with a design that treated landing as a first-order requirement, not an afterthought. The Falcon 9 booster was engineered from the start ...

“The Falcon 9 booster has a lifespan of 10 flights, but SpaceX operates them well beyond that until a mission requires the last meter per second,” says one veteran space engineer. Falcon Heavy ...

The Falcon Heavy roared into space Thursday night, arcing atop three columns of flame toward orbit with a large satellite on board. It was the second launch for what is the most powerful rocket in ...

SpaceX notched a number of other milestones during this very busy year. For example, the company pulled off its 500th rocket landing and 500th launch of a used rocket in 2025. And it repeatedly ...