A Falcon 9 launch carrying 26 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit has a launch window beginning Monday,

The Intuitive Machines IM-2 Nova-C "Athena" moon lander captured views of the SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage and Earth post deployment. Credit: Intuitive Machines / SpaceX | edited by Space.com

Photographer Craig Bailey shares details behind the picture of a vapor cone which formed around a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

A Falcon 9 launch carrying 26 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit is scheduled for Thursday, June 12

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 26 of SpaceX 's Starlink broadband satellites lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday (June 8) at 10:20 a.m. EDT (1420 GMT; 7:20 a.m. local California time).

The Axiom-4 mission launch, the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, was canceled Tuesday night after SpaceX detected a liquid oxygen leak in its Falcon 9 rocket.

SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday evening. The launch is currently scheduled for 8:36 p.m. on June 16. A livestream of the launch is scheduled to start about five minutes before liftoff.

The timely detection of a "crack in an oxidizer line" in the first stage of the Falcon-9 rocket - which will take four astronauts, including India's Shubhanshu Shukla, to the International Space Station - averted a major disaster.