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![A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 46 Starlink internet satellites to orbit on the Starlink 4-8 mission from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida on Feb. 21, 2022.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3u5928nZr9P4bSsDUoj6C-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX launches 46 Starlink satellites, lands Falcon 9 rocket for 100th time
By Mike Wall published
SpaceX launched nearly four dozen satellites and landed the returning rocket Monday (Feb. 21).
![A Long March 3C rocket blasts off in Xichang, Sichuan on October 1, 2010](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8HfpJGheoGHyEqsdu6nsMK-320-80.jpg)
Rogue rocket about to smash into the moon is from China, not SpaceX, experts say
By Ben Turner published
The object is set to hit the moon traveling at roughly 5,771 mph (9,288 km/h) on March 4.
![In the 1902 French movie, "A Trip to the Moon," a space rocket hits moon in the eye.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PMmEZPTguX3R63ZTZ3GcEj-320-80.jpg)
Here's what will happen when SpaceX rocket crashes into the moon
By David Rothery published
A SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon. Here's what will happen after the lunar crash.
![A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink internet satellites into space from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Oct. 6, 2020. It was the third flight for the Falcon 9 booster.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nzNpbB84TNvzDjsDdwgsMZ-320-80.jpg)
Geomagnetic storm sends 40 SpaceX satellites plummeting to Earth
By Ben Turner published
The satellites were hit by the storm just one day after launch.
![This still from a SpaceX tracking camera video shows the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket as it separates from its upper stage during SpaceX's launch of the Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 satellite for Italy on Jan. 31, 2021 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mvv5gHMxHHcZ5oRsGLZXN8-320-80.jpeg)
This SpaceX video of a Falcon 9 rocket stage separation during launch is just amazing
By Tariq Malik published
A new SpaceX video has captured a striking view of two critical moments in any rocket launch: stage separation for its booster and nose cone jettison.
![Artist's illustration of the DSCOVR satellite attached to its SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage shortly after launch in February 2015.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8GHRXfaZH7EDFE6xaBAjmF-320-80.jpg)
You can see the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster on a collision course with the moon in a live webcast today
By Samantha Mathewson published
A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster will crash into the moon on March 4, and you can track the rogue rocket during live webcasts on Feb. 7 and Feb.
![A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-87 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Feb. 2, 2022.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ts2jR9GG5ufNPeuHAjZYoV-320-80.jpeg)
SpaceX launches classified spy satellite for US military, lands rocket
By Mike Wall published
SpaceX sent a U.S. spy satellite to orbit Wednesday (Feb. 2) in the second of three planned launches over a four-day stretch.
![A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Italian CSG-2 Earth observation satellite launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Jan. 31, 2022.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CDabnK9KLT98hvFEPvdMy7-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX launches Italian Earth-observation satellite, lands rocket
By Mike Wall published
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the CSG-2 radar satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Monday (Jan. 31) at 6:11 p.m. EST (2311 GMT).
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