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What's Launching This Week

More Starlink satellites and two big launches for China

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SpaceX launches Starship test flight ‘lucky number 13’

What's Launching This Week

A classified NRO launch and a Chinese triple-header set to launch this week

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SpaceX targeting Thursday for second launch of the world’s largest rocket

What's Launching This Week

Transporter-17, two debut flights, and more Starlinks

Technicians in white cleanroom suits and hairnets guide a large satellite spacecraft as it is lifted by overhead rigging inside a high-bay cleanroom facility. The spacecraft's dense exterior — packed with wiring, electronics, and gold-foil-covered components — fills the upper half of the frame, while five workers standing around a metal work stand below steady and observe it.

What's Launching This Week

Swift Boost mission to launch on Tuesday

SpaceX's Starship rocket stands fully stacked on its launch mount at Boca Chica, Texas, with the towering mechazilla catch arm structure rising alongside it on the left. Thick white clouds of venting propellant or water vapor billow around the base and drift to the left, while a blue sky with scattered white clouds fills the background. A second launch structure is visible in the far left of the frame.

Space Exploration

FAA grounds SpaceX Starship after V3 debut

SpaceX's Starship rocket climbs away from its launch site shortly after liftoff, its white booster stage trailing a bright pink and white flame plume downward toward a coastal wetlands landscape below. A large billowing cloud of yellow-white exhaust smoke rises to the left of the vehicle, while winding waterways, sandy shores, and patches of green vegetation stretch across the terrain beneath a pale blue sky.

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What Starship Flight 12 means for SpaceX’s IPO

What's Launching This Week

Artemis 2 set to lift off Wednesday

New satellite constellations could ruin the night sky, astronomers warn

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