After soaring skyward due east, the rocket's first-stage booster landed aboard SpaceX's drone ship Just Read the Instructions ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon spacecraft carrying Axiom-4 astronauts heads to the International Space Station.

Including California launches, SpaceX has now flown 64 Falcon 9s so far this year, surpassing the total flown in 2022. ... although no Falcon Heavy mission have flown so far in 2025.

SpaceX engineers have applied what they’ve learned to the next-generation Starship rocket, whose first-stage booster, the 71-meter-tall Super Heavy, descends into the embrace of the launch tower ...

Sequel to SpaceX’s Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy can carry three times as much cargo, up to 53 metrics tons a pop. That’s 117,000 pounds in the trunk, or twice what you might cram into a Boeing 737 jet.

It’s the second try for SpaceX’s second Falcon Heavy. K Kenneth Chang Follow; The planned launch of the giant rocket — the most powerful now in operation on Earth — was postponed Wednesday ...

SpaceX said 29 of the booster's 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines are flight-proven. "The first Super Heavy reuse will be a step towards our goal of zero-touch reflight," SpaceX wrote on X.

Most recently, SpaceX has recovered three Super Heavy boosters in four attempts. SpaceX has a wealth of experience with recovering and reusing Falcon 9 boosters.