Russia launched its Soyuz 5 medium-lift rocket for the first time ever on Thursday (April 30), and things apparently went well.
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket flew for the first time in 18 months Wednesday (April 29), and a sharp-eyed satellite was watching.
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Liftoff occurred at 4:57 a.m. EDT on Thursday (April 30).

Earth’s moon is to be on the receiving end of a spent rocket stage in early August – the leftovers from a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch last year.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 25 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California on Sunday (April 26). It was the company’s 50th liftoff of the year already.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched 29 more of Amazon’s internet satellites to orbit on Monday night (April 27).
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SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in 18 months on Wednesday morning (April 29), delivering the ViaSat-3 F3 communications satellite into geostationary orbit.
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Russia launched its latest Progress cargo ship toward the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Saturday (April 25).
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Rocket Lab launched eight Japanese satellites to orbit on Wednesday night (April 22), including one that features an origami-folded antenna.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has temporarily grounded Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, which failed to deliver a satellite to the proper orbit during its third-ever launch on Sunday (April 19).
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