SpaceX just launched its Starfall return capsule for the first time. What does the company plan to do with the new vehicle?

The launch will involve a modified Northrop Grumman L-1011 aircraft and a Pegasus XL rocket.

SpaceX Starfall launches Tuesday from Cape Canaveral on its first demo flight — a disk-shaped reentry capsule that can return 1,000 kilograms from orbit, roughly 30 times more than current orbital manufacturing rivals,

Two spacecraft captured opposite sides of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at the same moment in November 2025, producing the first simultaneous ultraviolet view of both hemispheres of an object born in another star system.

After more than 20 years in orbit, NASA’s Swift space telescope is running out of altitude. To keep the observatory alive, the agency is preparing an ambitious rescue mission that would send a newly built spacecraft to catch Swift and push it into a higher orbit before it’s too late.

Quantum Space has won a Pentagon contract to develop a spacecraft capable of transferring propellant to satellites in geostationary orbit. The Rockville, Maryland-based company said June 18 it will build the orbital refueling vehicle using its Ranger platform,