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A Falcon 9 rocket lifted from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Dec. 9, at 1916 UTC on NROL-77 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, part of the Department of Defense, which operates the United States' fleet of spy satellites. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Falcon 9’s first stage (B1096) previously supported KF-01, IMAP and one Starlink mission

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Transporter-15 mission with 140 payloads, to Sun-synchronous orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on Nov. 28, at 1845 UTC. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, stationed in the Pacific Ocean. Falcon 9’s first stage (B1071) previously supported 29 missions: NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, SWOT, Transporter-8, Transporter-9, NROL-146, Bandwagon-2, NROL-153, NROL-192, Transporter-13 and 18 Starlink missions

Google has launched Gemini 3, its most advanced AI model to date, with CEO Sundar Pichai declaring it "the best model in the world for multimodal understanding"

5,900-kilogram ViaSat-3 F2, lifted off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday(Nov. 14) at 0304 UTC

Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle launched “The Nation God Navigates” mission, iQPS’s QPS-SAR-14 satellite nicknamed “YACHIHOKO-I” (ヤチホコ-Ⅰ) for the Japanese god of nation-building, from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, on 5 Nov., at 1951 UTC

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Bandwagon-4 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Nov. 2, at 0509 UTC, carrying 18 payloads into mid-inclination orbit (low Earth orbit)

Built by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet took off from Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, marking the first test of a jet designed to fly faster than sound without the explosive boom. The aircraft can cruise at 17 kilometers feet and reach speeds up to 1,488 MPH, producing a soft “thump” instead of a sonic blast

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched the SpainSat NG II communications satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on 24 October 2025, at 0130 UTC. Due to the additional performance required to deliver the payload to orbit, Falcon 9’s first stage (B1076) was not recovered, having previously supported 21 missions: CRS-26, OneWeb 16, Intelsat IS-40e, SES O3b mPOWER 5 & 6, Ovzon 3, Eutelsat 36D, Turksat-6A, Maxar 2, SXM-9 and 12 Starlink missions

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched 28 Starlink satellites (Starlink-313 / Starlink 11-19) to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on 19 Oct., at 1924 UTC. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, stationed in the Pacific Ocean. Falcon 9’s first stage (B1088) previously supported 10 missions: NROL-126, Transporter-12, SPHEREx/PUNCH, NROL-57 and 6 Starlink missions

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched 28 Starlink satellites (Starlink-312 / Starlink 10-17) to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Oct. 19, at 1739 UTC. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on the “A Shortfall of Gravitas” droneship, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Falcon 9’s first stage (B1067) previously supported 30 missions: CRS-22, Crew-3, Turksat-5B, Crew-4, CRS-25, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13G, O3b mPOWER-a, PSN SATRIA-1, Merah Putih 2, Galileo L13, Koreasat-6A and 19 Starlink missions