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Space calendar 2025: Rocket launches, skywatching events, missions & more!

By Space.com last updated

Reference Keep up with all the rocket launches, astronomical events and mission milestones for 2025 with our space calendar.

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a triple-core rocket blasts off under a sunny, partly cloudy blue sky. smoke expands below next to an obscured launch tower, near a long white hanger with SPACEX written on the side. To the left, a bird flies away.

Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?

By Josh Dinner, Tariq Malik last updated

Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.

Launches & Spacecraft
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches two of SES' O3b mPOWER communications satellites from Florida on July 22, 2025.

SpaceX launches 2 powerful internet satellites, lands rocket on ship at sea (video)

By Mike Wall published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two of SES's O3b mPOWER communications satellites toward medium-Earth orbit today (July 22), then aced its landing on a ship at sea.

Launches & Spacecraft
four people in white spacesuits smile and give a thumbs-up in front of a cone-shaped white spacecraft in a hangar surrounded by scaffolding

SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the ISS: Live updates

By Mike Wall, Josh Dinner last updated

Read the latest news about SpaceX's Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station.

Human Spaceflight
Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, speaks during a panel discussion with agency center directors at the 2024 Artemis Suppliers Conference on Feb. 28, 2024, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington.

Makenzie Lystrup stepping down as director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

By Mike Wall published

Makenzie Lystrup will step down as head of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on Aug. 1. She'll be the second NASA center director to depart in just a two-month span.

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NASA scientists sound alarm over threats to science and safety in 'Voyager Declaration'

By Samantha Mathewson published

The signatories warn that political interference and abrupt budget reductions could jeopardize decades of progress in space exploration, aeronautics and climate science.

Space Exploration
Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle launches on the NS-25 crewed suborbital mission, on May 19, 2024

Crypto billionaire Justin Sun will fly on Blue Origin's next space tourism launch

By Mike Wall published

Justin Sun, the billionaire founder of the blockchain platform Tron, is one of the six people who will fly to suborbital space on Blue Origin's next tourist mission.

Private Spaceflight
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch two of SES' O3b mPOWER satellites on July 21, 2025. SpaceX called that day's attempt off.

SpaceX aborts satellite launch 11 seconds before liftoff (video)

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX aborted the planned launch of two of SES' O3b mPOWER communications satellites just before liftoff on Monday evening (July 21). The company will try again tomorrow (July 22).

Launches & Spacecraft
A man and a woman move small plastic tubes around on a table in microgravity

Astronauts collect blood aboard the ISS | Space photo of the day for July 21, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station collect blood samples as part of a project to study human health in space.

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a white and black rocket lifts off at night, its engine thrust lighting up its launch pad and surrounding area

Friday night light: SpaceX launch from California sends two dozen new Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (video)

By Robert Z. Pearlman last updated

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday, July 18, 2025.

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