SpaceFlight Now

• Next-gen astronaut Moon rovers aim for deployment ahead of Artemis 4 crew arrival

  On May 26, NASA selected two lunar terrain vehicle providers to create iterative versions of their prior LTV designs that can deploy to the Moon in more timely and cost-effective manner.

• West Coast Falcon 9 launch continues expansion of SpaceX’s Starlink network

  Liftoff of the Starlink 17-45 mission from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California occurred at 8:30 p.m. PDT (11:30 p.m. EDT / 0330 UTC).

• NASA, Boeing committed to Starliner-1 launch despite unclear timeline

  The uncrewed flight of the spacecraft is still going through testing and analysis before NASA green lights a return to flight mission.

• SpaceX launches reentry capsule demo mission called ‘Starfall’

  The mission is the debut of a new reentry capsule developed by SpaceX that weighs about 2,100 kg (4,600 lbs). Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 6:53 a.m. EDT (1053 UTC).

• NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida

  The $4.3 billion observatory will go through about 70 days of prelaunch processing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center before it launches on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket no earlier than August 30.