Here are the launches scheduled for the next 24 hours: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-38 Provider: SpaceX Launch Time: 2026-08-08 16:23 UTC / 2026-08-08 12:23 PM EDT Launch Pad: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA Pad Country: USA Visit RocketLaunch.Live to view the full schedule for future planned launches. For more information about how to identify space launches and their effects, check out our Space Launches Wiki Page. Launch Example Image 1 - Launch Example Image 2

🌙 TONIGHT, THE MOON ACQUIRES A NEW SCAR At approximately 2:34 a.m. ET, a four-ton Falcon 9 upper stage, abandoned after carrying two landers toward the Moon in January 2025, will reach the end of its long, silent orbit. It will strike the lunar surface near Einstein Crater at roughly 5,400 mph. Models suggest the collision could excavate a crater somewhere between 20 and 40 meters across, while launching a column of lunar material potentially tens of miles above the surface. Observatories ac...

Here are the launches scheduled for the next 24 hours: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-53 Provider: SpaceX Launch Time: 2026-08-04 16:29 UTC / 2026-08-04 12:29 PM EDT Launch Pad: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA Pad Country: USA Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload Provider: China Rocket Co. Ltd. Launch Time: 2026-08-05 02:35 UTC / 2026-08-04 10:35 PM EDT Launch Pad: Haiyang Oriental Spaceport Pad Country: CHN Falcon 9 Block 5 | BlueBird 11-13 (Block 2 #6-8) Provider: SpaceX Launch Time: 2026-08-05 0...

Here are the launches scheduled for the next 24 hours: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-52 Provider: SpaceX Launch Time: 2026-08-01 02:00 UTC / 2026-07-31 10:00 PM EDT Launch Pad: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA Pad Country: USA Visit RocketLaunch.Live to view the full schedule for future planned launches. For more information about how to identify space launches and their effects, check out our Space Launches Wiki Page. Launch Example Image 1 - Launch Example Image 2

🚨Falcon 9 Is About To Hit The Moon, And NASA May Get A Free Lunar Impact Experiment Out Of It A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is now predicted to slam into the Moon on August 5, 2026, near Einstein crater, along the Moons western limb. The object is the leftover upper stage from the January 2025 launch that sent Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander and ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 2 toward the lunar surface. It has been drifting through the Earth-Moon system since, and orbital tracker Bill...