Cape Canaveral is the world's busiest spaceport. From the Kennedy Space Center and the adjacent Space Force station, SpaceX, ULA and NASA launch crews, satellites and deep-space missions at a record pace.
Every launch, landing and scrub from Florida's Space Coast shapes the global space industry's rhythm. Cape Canaveral stories almost always touch Space & Aerospace and Research & Science.
SpaceX reached its 100th orbital launch of 2026 with a Starlink mission from California, a day after a Florida launch pushed the constellation past 11,000 satellites.
SpaceX scrubbed a Starlink mission and rescheduled for Tuesday, while Rocket Lab cautioned that its Neutron rocket's debut could slide into 2027 and announced Kepler as the first dedicated customer.
Blue Origin has traced May's New Glenn pad explosion to a faulty oxygen valve on a BE-4 engine and plans retrofits by end of August, while customers face delays.
SpaceX executed back-to-back Falcon 9 launches from California and Florida, deploying a total of 53 Starlink satellites and setting a new booster reuse record.