Major US Launches Over the Holidays: - SUN NZ Electron ★ FRI CA Falcon9 CSG Italy (RTLS & Satellite separation) ______ Updated: 2 JAN / 2200 (all times US Eastern) Last week Today in History:And I've watched every danged one of 'em.On December 21, 2015, exactly ten years ago today, SpaceX achieved the first successful vertical landing of an orbital-class Falcon 9 first stage after deploying 11 ORBCOMM satellites, revolutionizing reusable rocketry pic.twitter.com/LHfuYCY2ez
— Dima Zeniuk (@DimaZeniuk) December 21, 2025
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (14-20 DEC)
Major US Launches this Week: • SUN CA Falcon9 Starlink • MON FL Falcon9 Starlink - TUE FL Atlas V Amazon • WED FL Falcon9 Starlink • WED CA Falcon9 Starlink ______ Updated: 19 DEC / 2000 00 (all times US Eastern) Last week
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (7-13 DEC)
Major US Launches this Week: • SUN CA Falcon9 Starlink • MON FL Falcon9 Starlink ★ TUE FL Falcon9 NROL (RTLS) • WED CA Falcon9 Starlink • THU FL Falcon9 Starlink - SAT NZ Electron ______ Updated: 13 DEC / 2400 (all times US Eastern) Last week Engineering PrOn: • Chinese landing failure • Raptor3 engine testing • Raptor3 stepped nozzle
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (30 Nov – 6 Dec)
Major US Launches this Week: • MON FL Falcon9 Starlink • TUE CA Falcon9 Starlink • TUE FL Falcon9 Starlink • THU CA Falcon9 Starlink ______ Updated: 6 DEC / 1300 (all times US Eastern) Last weekHard to Do: China tries
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (23-29 Nov)
Major US Launches this Week: • SUN CA Falcon9 Starlink (Launch #150 in 2025) ★ FRI CA Falcon9 Transporter (Booster's 30th mission, really nice landing vid) Speaking of "hard to do"… ______ Updated: 29 NOV / 1200 (all times US Eastern) Last week
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (16-22 Nov)
Major US Launches this Week: ★ MON CA Falcon9 Sentinel (RTLS) • TUE FL Falcon9 Starlink - THU NZ Electron BlackSky • THU FL Falcon9 Starlink • SAT FL Falcon9 Starlink ______ Updated: 22 NOV / 1000 (all times US Eastern) Last week
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (9-15 Nov)
Major US Launches this Week: • SUN FL Falcon9 Starlink • MON FL Falcon9 Starlink - THU FL Atlas V ViaSat • FRI FL Falcon9 Starlink • SAT FL Falcon9 Starlink ______ Updated: 15 Nov / 0700 (all times US Eastern) Last week
Thursday launch & landing
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (2 – 8 Nov)
Major US Launches this Week: ★ SUN FL Falcon9 / Bandwagon Rideshare RTLS - WED NZ Electron/ iQPS (nice staging & fairing sep views) • WED FL Falcon9 / Starlink • THU CA Falcon9 / Starlink (pretty views) ______ Updated: 8 Nov / 0710 (all times US Eastern) Last week
This guy takes me back to my first view of a Titan3 satellite launch from Vandenberg’s SLC-4 back in 1970.
Of course, those were classified NRO missions, so the only unofficial spectators were family members and spies;
and most of the time it was too foggy to see anything.
Every American owes it to themselves to go see a SpaceX rocket launch.
They’re a reminder that there’s more to life than politics and problems.
It would be useful to make this a field trip for public schools.
There is no better demonstration of what makes America special. pic.twitter.com/kuvmCkvRyt
— Kaizen D. Asiedu (@thatsKAIZEN) November 3, 2025
