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Four rockets are set to launch this week from the United States and India.

As SpaceX prepares to fly Flight 15 in November, with a successful Static Fire test occurring at Starbase on Sunday, the company is pushing to launch Flight 16 from LC-39A as soon as possible and expand operations at Kennedy Space Center.

NASA released its October Artemis Update on Friday, covering the near-term status of the Space Launch System (SLS), a lighter “sortie” version of the lunar spacesuit, and two parallel architectures for delivering astronauts to the lunar surface.

Expedition 75 aboard the International Space Station gained four new crew members at the beginning of October before Crew-12 left the station.

As its launch cadence continues to grow, China is stepping further towards reusable rockets as it prepares for the first re-flight of a previously-flown booster, while the Chang Zheng 12A will attempt to become China’s third rocket to have its first stage…

Nine rockets are set to launch this week from California, Florida, New Zealand, Japan, and China.

Following on from the successful Transporter 18 mission at the beginning of the month, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 vehicle launched an additional 32 rideshare payloads for the Bandwagon-5 mission on Tuesday, Oct. 20, delayed by a day due to unfavorable recovery wea…

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is flying a planetary probe to Mars’s moon Phobos, taking advantage of this year’s window to reach the Red Planet on an ideal trajectory, one that lasted until Nov. 9.

PLD Space has entered a new phase ahead of the first demonstration flight of its Miura 5 orbital launcher.

SpaceX is advancing toward its next two Starship missions as the company looks to close out 2026.

Rocket Lab has delayed its Neutron launch vehicle once again after carbon fibre manufacturing problems on the first stage propellant tank.

With both solid rocket boosters fully stacked and all four RS-25 engines now installed on the Core Stage, NASA is preparing to mate the stage to the boosters and form the short stack that will roll to Launch Pad 39B for a tanking test.

This week features a relatively quiet launch manifest, with SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 comprising much of the launch schedule.

The International Space Station, fresh off a crew handover and the return of Crew-12 to Earth, is about to receive a new cargo ship.