Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on the Starfall Demo mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 23, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on Tuesday to test a new reentry vehicle designed to deliver cargo anywhere in the world from low-Earth orbit. The company developed the new saucer-shaped reentry ...

Redwire Corporation's pharmaceutical subsidiary SpaceMD has signed the first commercial contract for a dedicated SpaceX Starfall mission, locking in 32 of its Pharmaceutical In-Space Laboratory ...

Today SpaceX deployed and demonstrated the Starfall low cost capsule return system. This a demo of a new vehicle that will enable affordable, routine access to the microgravity environment for ...

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Starfall is explicitly designed for mass production (like Starlink satellites), so unit costs drop sharply with volume. It is tiny compared to a Starship upper stage (~2.1 t dry mass vs. ~85–100 t), ...

SpaceX launched Starfall on Tuesday morning, June 23, 2026, putting its secretive disk-shaped cargo return capsule into low Earth orbit for the first time. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space ...