The flagship astronomy observatory lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on August 30, 2026, and successfully separated from its launch vehicle as it heads outward on a mission to probe dark energy and dark matter.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope rolled out to Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A on Saturday, positioning NASA's next flagship observatory for an August 30 launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
The Starlink 10-49 mission, scheduled for August 25, pairs two milestones: the year's 100th Falcon 9 flight and a single booster's unprecedented 37th mission, underscoring SpaceX's widening lead in launch cadence and rocket reusability.
The Trump administration released a new space transportation policy targeting a dramatic increase in launch rates while convening military drone industry leaders at the White House on the same day.
The defense startup's Series C round signals growing investor appetite for next-generation strike weapons built by commercial space veterans outside the traditional defense contracting establishment.
The Starlink 17-50 mission crossed a new constellation milestone, and SpaceX's concurrent role as launch provider for U.S. Space Force missions underscores how deeply government communications are tied to a single commercial operator.
With SpaceX having wound down its Transporter rideshare program, SEOPS is moving quickly to capture stranded payload demand by expanding its Waymaker dedicated rideshare offering.
A secret Space Force payload lifted off from California on August 16, 2026, in a launch that underscores how deeply the military has integrated commercial rocket infrastructure into its most sensitive operations.
A Falcon 9 rocket delivered a new batch of Globalstar satellites to low Earth orbit on August 15, continuing the commercial operator's periodic constellation refresh cycle.
The contracts push Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab, and York Space Systems to demonstrate that diverse commercial and defense satellites can plug into a single military backbone.
A cluster of early-August Falcon 9 flights from Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral Space Force installations highlights the accelerating pace of commercial satellite deployment through military-maintained launch infrastructure.
The second round of SB-AMTI contracts expands the Pentagon's push to build a space-based constellation capable of detecting and tracking airborne targets in contested environments.
Back-to-back July launches for the National Reconnaissance Office and Starlink illustrate SpaceX's simultaneous roles as a national security launch provider and operator of the world's largest commercial satellite constellation.
The contract covers 18 Falcon 9 missions through 2027 and is the first task order issued under the Pentagon's sweeping $11.4 billion Space Force funding increase.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the California military installation on July 25, 2026, adding two dozen satellites to the Starlink broadband constellation and illustrating the routine operational overlap between commercial and defense space infrastructure.
A new contract for strategic satellite communications ground software and a routine Starlink launch from a Space Force base together illustrate the parallel tracks of U.S. military space modernization.
Two Starlink Mini laser terminals mounted on the Orion capsule's exterior will downlink 4K imagery to Mission Control during the first crewed lunar landing attempt since Apollo.
From the Atlas 5's final payload mission to China's first booster recovery and Austria's second military satellite, late June and early July 2026 offered a cross-section of the commercial and defense infrastructure expansion now under way.
ESA and the European Commission have opened their flagship launch-support program to a broader set of providers just as Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reaches the Norwegian launch pad — while SpaceX's Starfall reentry demo introduces new competitive pressure in an adjacent market.
