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.

The year's last rocket launch from SpaceX is set to blast off from Florida's Space Coast early Tuesday morning.

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 put the final countdown in the books for the Space Coast early Tuesday adding one more to the record pace of launches for the year.

Elon Musk's SpaceX program is set to launch several rockets in the coming days. Here is the schedule and if they will be visible here.