Tonight's launch will be the 59th orbital mission of the year for SpaceX already. Forty-one of the company's 58 launches in 2024 have been dedicated to building out the Starlink megaconstellation, which currently consists of more than 6,000 functional satellites.

In its fourth text flight, the reusable rocket survived its return to earth, heralding a workable business model of reusable spacecraft for commercial launch industry, and possible manned missions to the moon--and Mars.

Welcome to Edition 6.47 of the Rocket Report! The monumental news of late is that Boeing's Starliner spacecraft not only successfully launched on an Atlas V rocket, but then subsequently docked with the International Space Station. Congratulations to all involved. It's been a long road to get here.

Standing nearly 400 feet tall when stacked on top of its “Super Heavy” booster, Starship is larger than even the Saturn V rockets that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon. The spaceship is also unique in that it uses stainless steel instead of light-weight metals like aluminum and titanium.

SpaceX’s Starship is slated to lift off on its fourth uncrewed flight test Thursday from the company’s private Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

SpaceX achieved a key milestone in its Starship flight test campaign: returning the booster and the upper stage back to Earth.

After four delays Friday night, SpaceX sent a batch of 22 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. The company launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the payload from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 9:56 p.

During a successful fourth flight test of Starship this week, SpaceX stated another big goal: Building one megarocket a day at its new Starfactory.