Less than an hour before the Artemis II astronauts are due to land near California, SpaceX could launch a rocket about 200 miles north.

Three rockets are scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base this week, including two SpaceX Starlink missions.

SpaceX successfully launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into low-earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday. According to SpaceX, they were

Meteorologists give Wednesday’s Artemis launch attempt from Kennedy Space Center an 80% chance of favorable weather.

Four astronauts will launch on the Artemis II mission Wednesday, marking the first human trip around the moon in over 50 years.

The Artemis II mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:35 MT/5:35 CT on Wednesday, April 1, carrying four astronauts away from the Earth and towards the moon on a spacecraft called Orion. The crew will have to travel some 244,000 miles (393,000 kilometers) away to reach the moon, which will take several days.

A group of researchers from Utah and Florida measured the sound levels produced by the Space Launch System rocket.

MILAN – PLD Space signed a 30 million euro ($35 million) venture debt loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB) on April 7, a move to support the final development stage of MIURA 5, PLD’s lightweight rocket.