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Moon landings, asteroid missions and new telescopes: Here are the top spaceflight moments to look forward to in 2026

From astronauts looping around the moon to spacecraft reaching Mercury and asteroids near Earth, 2026 is shaping up to be a landmark year for space exploration.

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SpaceX shatters its rocket launch record yet again — 165 orbital flights in 2025

SpaceX just set a new annual-launch record for the sixth year in a row, and the numbers are getting pretty silly.

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12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025

We saw quite a few milestones notched in the final frontier this year. But there were a number of failures as well, some of them quite dramatic.

Space

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Starship success, a private moon landing and more: The top 10 spaceflight stories of 2025

Over the past 12 months, we saw multiple spaceflight records broken, the debut of a powerful new rocket and the first-ever fully successful private moon landing.

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Elon Musk Says SpaceX’s Starship Is ‘One of the Most Profound Things’ In Human History and as Important as the Development of Life Itself

Elon Musk outlines why SpaceX’s Starship represents a historic shift in spaceflight, driven by full reusability and long-term economic impact.

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“I was recording with Jerry Garcia, but I still had to ride my bike to school and keep my grades up, or else my parents would throw my guitar in the trash”: Starship trooper Craig Chaquico on “corporate rock”, and life as a teenage guitar whiz

Craig Chaquico was green, raw, and young when he joined Jefferson Starship in 1974, but left to his own devices he grew up fast – and his style was a runaway success

Guitar World

Reports: SpaceX Expected to Launch Bid for £1.1 Trillion Valuation in 2026

Multiple media outlets have reported that SpaceX will proceed with an initial public offering that would raise more than $30 billion in 2026.

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SpaceX can launch its Starship megarocket from Florida pad, Air Force says

The U.S. Air Force has given SpaceX permission to develop SLC-37 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as a launch site for its Starship megarocket.

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SpaceX cleared for redesign of launch pad at Cape Canaveral that will allow 76 additional launches per year

The FAA predicts there will be a significant increase in space launches between now and 2034

The Independent UK

'Elon Musk is The Thomas Edison of Our Age, He Just Wants to Do The Right Thing': Ark Invest's Cathie Wood Says

Ark Invest's Cathie Wood describes Elon Musk as the Thomas Edison of our era, highlighting his innovative drive and vision for transforming humanity through Tesla and SpaceX.

International Business Times UK

Uber to launch delivery robots bringing food to UK doorsteps from December

The food-carrying robots will be rolled out in UK cities from as soon as December

Evening Standard

Uber Eats will soon use robots to deliver your takeaway - but you can't tip them

Starship Technologies robots could soon bring your Uber Eats takeaway to your door.

TechRadar

Elon Musk Says Starship Can Deliver 300 GW Solar AI Satellites Per Year, But There's One Major 'Piece Of The Puzzle' That Stands In Its Way

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has claimed that the Starship rocket can deliver 300 Gigawatt solar-powered AI satellites to orbit amid space-based data center talks.

Benzinga

SpaceX Starship timeline delays astronaut moon landing for NASA's Artemis 3 mission to 2028: Report

At this rate, Starship will not be ready in time for NASA's schedule.

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Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Says Elon Musk's Starship 'Critical' To Solving AI's Power Bottleneck With Orbital Data Centers

Cathie Wood‘s ARK Invest is highlighting orbital AI data centers as a necessary solution to the artificial intelligence (AI) industry’s immense energy demands, identifying Elon Musk-led SpaceX‘s Starship as the “critical” technology to make it viable.

The Conversation

What’s gone wrong between Nasa and Elon Musk’s SpaceX?

Elon Musk’s company SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin have submitted simplified plans to Nasa designed to return US astronauts to the Moon’s surface.

The Conversation

New Nasa lunar contest could pit Elon Musk against Jeff Bezos, as US fears China will win race to Moon

The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a century. But there’s a developing twist: an emerging competition between American companies to build the landing vehicle that could win this new Moon race for…

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SpaceX Details Expedited Lunar Mission Timeline As Elon Musk Says Starship Can Carry '100 People' Amid Sean Duffy's Search For Backup Options

Elon Musk's commercial space flight company, SpaceX, shared an expedited timeline of its Lunar mission goals amid uncertainty over NASA's Artemis contracts.

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SpaceX looking into 'simplified' Starship Artemis 3 mission to get astronauts to the moon faster

On Oct. 30, SpaceX posted an update about its Starship moon-landing plans, which includes a reference to a possible "simplified mission architecture and concept of operations" for NASA's Artemis 3.

Benzinga

Elon Musk Says China's Falcon 9 Rival Might Outperform In 5 Years 'If They Are Lucky,' Notes SpaceX Will Be Launching Starship By Then

Elon Musk on Saturday stated that SpaceX's Chinese rival, LandSpace Technology's Zhuque-3 launch vehicle, might outperform the Falcon 9 "if they are lucky," but it could still take a few years.

Space

SpaceX launches its record-breaking 139th mission of the year (video)

SpaceX launched its record-setting 139th mission of the year today (Oct. 23), sending a Spanish military-communications satellite to orbit.

Space

'Sean Dummy': Why is Elon Musk attacking the acting NASA chief?

Elon Musk has hammered acting NASA chief Sean Duffy repeatedly on social media over the past few days, calling him "Sean Dummy" and claiming he's "trying to kill NASA." Here's what may be going on.

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Time is ‘running out’ for SpaceX as Artemis III mission deadline looms, despite successful launch

SpaceX’s Starship successfully took off and landed in its 11th launch last week. What’s next for the rocket that’s supposed to take humans back to the Moon and beyond?

Benzinga

Elon Musk Says 100K People, 1 Million Tons Of Cargo Needed To Sustain Mars Colonies, Reiterates Starship's Importance: 'Will Land Humans On Mars'

Billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that he is "confident" that the company's Starship rocket would land humans on Mars.

Space

Watch a charred SpaceX Starship land in the ocean after acing Flight Test 11 (video)

New SpaceX footage from Starship Flight 11 shows the final moments of Oct. 13 mission, which ended with a picture-perfect splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

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