Falcon 9 news
Here we gather what the specialist press publishes about Falcon 9: 95 stories collected since July 6, 2026, newest first and always linking to the outlet that published them. The list updates itself as new pieces come in. The recurring topics are Space, Accidents, Industry.
August 19, 2026
There is a new crater on the Moon since August 5, 2026. It was carved out by the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe has…
But the most interesting findings come from studying the ejected material, since the images clearly show bright and dark "rays" extending from the center of the…
NASA released on August 18 the images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe of the crater created on August 5 by the impact on the Moon of a second stage of the […]…
The crater formed on August 5, when the upper stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket hit the Moon (photo from the LRO probe). The post A piece of a SpaceX rocket has…
In the first attempt, on December 3 of the previous year, to land the booster of the Zhouque-3 rocket using the same procedure as SpaceX's Falcon 9, there was still an impact just next to the…
August 18, 2026
Images were captured between August 11 and 12 by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), six days after the object hit the lunar surface The post NASA finds 18-meter crater…
Between Aug. 11–12, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the moon. The crater formed Aug. 5, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the…
NASA’s super camera on its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) passed over the crash site of a Falcon-9 rocket stage, snapping imagery six days after the impact. The spacecraft’s LROC Narrow Angle…
Between Aug. 11 and 12, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the Moon. The crater formed on Aug. 5, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted…
August 17, 2026
Earlier this month, a discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage crashed into the lunar surface at 8,700 kilometers per hour. This was not a controlled landing. The stage had been […] The post A rocket…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- In the early hours of August 16, 2026 (Spanish peninsular time), SpaceX's launch cadence reached a new milestone: the company launched two Falcon 9 rockets with…
MDA Space has confirmed the first eight Globalstar replenishment satellites reached orbit, launched Saturday 15 August on a Falcon 9 and built in Montréal, now entering in-orbit commissioning.
August 16, 2026
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Last Saturday, August 15, SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets carrying separate missions: Globalstar 2-R Launch 1 and USSF-366…
On August 15, 2026, SpaceX completed two orbital Falcon 9 launches within 38 minutes from operational pads on opposite coasts of the United States. The high-cadence launch doubleheader deployed the…
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SpaceX launched two of its Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart on Saturday evening (Aug. 15), setting a new spaceflight record.
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August 12, 2026
Aviación Digital, Sp.- SpaceX's launch cadence shows no signs of slowing. On August 11, 2026, the company once again put into orbit another batch of satellites for its Starlink internet network, in…
August 11, 2026
The Starlink 17-49 mission will be the 73rd mission flying SpaceX’s broadband internet satellites to orbit. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled during a window that opens…
August 10, 2026
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Aug. 5, the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the moon in an uncontrolled collision.
On August 10, 2026, financial market analysis highlighted a projected shift in space launch economics as SpaceX transitions primary payload manifests from its operational Falcon 9 workhorse to the…
On Saturday 8 August at 9:35 am (Pacific time), SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East…
August 8, 2026
A Falcon 9 upper stage ended up on a collision course with the Moon. While there are no images of the moment of impact, a Korean satellite managed to capture the first images…
August 7, 2026
The spent upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has struck the Moon, illustrating the hazard posed by debris in cislunar space. This problem will increase as launches to orbit and to the Moon…
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On Wednesday, August 5, 2026, at 06:35 UTC, the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket struck the Moon at 2.43 kilometers per second […]
South Korea's lunar orbiter Danuri has captured the effects on the Moon of the impact of SpaceX's rocket upper stage
Multiple sources have reported that SpaceX has stopped accepting bookings for its Transporter and Bandwagon rideshare missions beyond late 2028, with the company citing a fully booked Falcon 9…
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August 6, 2026
On July 30, 2026, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying the classified NROL-95 payload […]
On August 5, 2026, a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage unintentionally struck the surface of the Moon at high velocity. The 4-metric-ton rocket body, measuring approximately 12 meters in […]
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage that collided with the moon on Wednesday (Aug. 5), was just the latest in a line of energetic lunar touchdowns.
After roughly a year and a half wandering through space, a SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage has crashed onto the lunar surface. The impact occurred at…
NASA has confirmed that a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage - which launched ispace's Resilience and Firefly's Blue Ghost landers in January 2025 - made an 'unplanned impact' on the lunar surface on 5…
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