Europe’s Copernicus program notched a significant milestone recently with the successful launch of Sentinel-1D, the final satellite in the first generation of the Sentinel-1 radar Earth-observing mission.

Relativity Space, a launch startup developing a reusable rocket, has expanded a contract to provide launches for satellite operator SES.

Live updates from Saturday morning’s scrubbed SpaceX Starlink 10-51 mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

SpaceX is working toward a Wednesday, Oct. 22, launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from the West Coast. Californians also have plenty of opportunities to see a rocket in person both near the launch site as it lifts off, and further away as it soars overhead.

The spacecraft in question was the Shenzhou-20 capsule, which transported a crew of three astronauts to the Tiangong space station in April 2025.

After a Saturday morning scrub, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is rescheduled to lift 29 Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit between 3:10 a.m. and 7:10 a.m. Sunday from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.