Starship: Flight 8 Mishap Findings and What to Expect from Flight 9

Starship Flight 8 saw key milestones and a mid-flight anomaly; SpaceX now readies Flight 9 with engine fixes, new tests, and its first booster reuse
Starship Flight 8 saw key milestones and a mid-flight anomaly; SpaceX now readies Flight 9 with engine fixes, new tests, and its first booster reuse
Bandwagon-3 launches with PHOENIX-1, ATMOS's new inflatable re-entry capsule, a major milestone for space logistics and Europe's return tech ambitions
SpaceX launched Fram2, the first private human spaceflight over Earth's poles, carrying a four-person crew for scientific research and educational outreach
SpaceX's Crew-9 Dragon capsule safely splashed down off the coast of Florida ending a long and controversial mission
SpaceX successfully launched the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), thus finally enabling the return of the Starliner crew soon
NASA SPHEREx Observatory launched on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Base to map the sky in 102 color bands and explore the universe’s origins.
Starship's Flight 8 ended earlier than expected as engines on Ship 34 shut down and the vehicle was destroyed. Booster 15, however, successfully landed
On February 26, SpaceX launched the Nova-C lander Athena toward the Moon for Ice Mining experiments within the IM-2 PRIME-1 mission
SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 launches Feb. 28 with key upgrades post-Flight 7 failure, featuring an in-space engine relight and the first payload deploy tests
ATMOS Space Cargo confirmed the maiden flight of its re-entry capsule, Phoenix, to Low Earth Orbit on a SpaceX rideshare mission planned for April 2025