SpaceX launched its first flight of 2025, sending a Falcon 9 rocket into space with a Thuraya 4 satellite from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40 in Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket took off at 8:27 p.m.

Doing that on a maiden flight would be unprecedented: that kind of partial reusability was pioneered by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s ...

We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

The Space Coast is set for another busy year in 2025 with new moon missions, new spacecraft and a new rocket debut.