The Thuraya 4 mission will mark SpaceX's 418th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and the company's 435th mission overall. SpaceX launched more than 130 orbital missions in 2024, and this year's total is expected to be even higher.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX is preparing for its first Falcon 9 launch of 2025, which will send the Thuraya 4-NGS communication satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit. The company will open the four-hour launch window at 8:27 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 3.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX announced that it’s gearing up for its next Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida’s Space Coast on Friday night. In a release, company officials said the launch will send a communications satellite into orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on behalf of the UAE-based company Yahsat.

After a record year of launches, SpaceX is set to kick things off again with the first mission of 2025 on Friday night.

SpaceX completed back to back missions of two Falcon 9 rockets over the weekend, delivering 22 Starlink satellites and Astranis's One to Many Mission into orbit, the 132nd and 133rd missions of the year.

SpaceX's highly anticipated launch of four "MicroGEO" communications satellites was called off at the final second on1. A Falcon 9 rocket, prepared for liftoff from Cap