SpaceX will launch the NROL-69 mission using a Falcon 9 rocket on March 24

SpaceX will launch the NROL-69 mission using a Falcon 9 rocket on March 24

SpaceX has announced that it is preparing to launch the NROL-69 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) using a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, March 24, 2025, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with liftoff scheduled for 1:48 p.m. ET (17:48 UTC). Targeting Monday, March 24 … Read more

NASA Cygnus Begins Its Return from the ISS

NASA Cygnus Begins Its Return from the ISS

NASA has announced that Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, which delivered over 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific materials, and hardware to the International Space Station (ISS), is now preparing for its departure. This uncrewed spacecraft is scheduled to detach from the ISS on March 28, 2025. NASA will provide live coverage of the event on NASA+ … Read more

NROL-57 aims to boost space intelligence and national security

NROL-57 aims to boost space intelligence and national security

SpaceX successfully launched the NROL-57 mission using its Falcon 9 rocket. The launch occurred on Thursday, March 20, at 11:49 p.m. Pacific Time (PT), which corresponds to Friday, March 21, at 12:19 a.m. IST, from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base. This mission was carried out for the United States’ … Read more

NROL-57 mission was conducted for the United States’ National Reconnaissance Office

SpaceX successfully launched the NROL-57

SpaceX successfully launched the NROL-57 mission using its Falcon 9 rocket. The launch took place on Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 11:49 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Targeting Thursday, March 20 for a Falcon 9 launch of the @NatReconOfc’s NROL-57 mission from … Read more

SpaceX saved the astronauts and sent them to NASA’s Johnson Space Center

SpaceX saved the astronauts and sent them to NASA’s Johnson Space Center

The Crew-9 mission, a collaboration between NASA and SpaceX, launched on September 28, 2024, at 1:17 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida, using a Falcon 9 rocket to send the Dragon spacecraft Freedom to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew included NASA astronauts Nick Hague (commander), Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and … Read more

SpaceX and NASA planned Dragon’s autonomous undocking from the ISS

SpaceX and NASA planned Dragon's autonomous undocking from the ISS

On Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at 1:05 a.m. ET, SpaceX and NASA planned the autonomous undocking of the Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Crew-9 members NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. Watch Dragon depart the @Space_Station and return to Earth with the … Read more

Trump said he authorized Musk to expedite the return of Williams and Wilmore

Trump said he authorized Musk to expedite the return of Williams and Wilmore

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, recently expressed gratitude toward SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump. Their extended stay began in June 2024, when they launched on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft for what was intended to be an eight-day … Read more

NASA and SpaceX have targeted an earlier return on the evening of Tuesday

NASA will provide live coverage of the SpaceX Crew-9 mission’s return to Earth from the ISS

NASA will provide live coverage of the SpaceX Crew-9 mission’s return to Earth from the International Space Station, beginning with preparations to close the Dragon spacecraft’s hatch at 10:45 p.m. EDT on Monday, March 17. .@NASA will provide live coverage of Crew-9’s return to Earth from the @Space_Station, beginning with @SpaceX Dragon hatch closure preparations … Read more

SpaceX Dragon’s hatch opened, and Crew-10’s four astronauts entered the ISS

SpaceX Dragon's hatch opened, and Crew-10's four astronauts entered the ISS

On March 16, 2025, at 1:35 a.m. ET, the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft opened, allowing the four members of Crew-10 Anne McClain and Nicole Ayers (NASA, USA), Takuya Onishi (JAXA, Japan), and Kirill Peskov (Roscosmos, Russia) to enter the International Space Station (ISS). All the hugs. 🫶 The hatch of the SpaceX Dragon … Read more