For the second time in 2026, a SpaceX rocket is due to blast off from Southern California. Here's where (and what time) you may spot Falcon 9 liftoff

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force announced Jan. 9 it awarded SpaceX nine national security space launch missions worth $739 million, issuing task orders under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 program.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base during a 57-minute window that opens at 8:19 a.m. EST (1319 GMT and 5:19 a.m. local California time).

SpaceX could soon debut from South Texas a more advanced and powerful version of its mammoth spacecraft known as Starship. Here's what to know.

What was to be SpaceX's final mission of 2025 from California will now be the first of 2026. Here's how to watch a livestream of the delayed launch.

SpaceX did not just have a good year in 2025, it fundamentally reshaped the launch market. Out of a global field crowded with national agencies and private competitors, the company ended up handling more than half of all orbital missions,

Watch how a SpaceX Starship and its Super Heavy booster launches in slow motion and the flight in real-time. Also the Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly in slow motion. Footage courtesy SpaceX | mash mix by Space.

The Space Force is seeking proposals to convert an empty stretch at the southern tip of Vandenberg Space Force Base into a launch site for giant rockets.