SpaceX launched a mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) from Florida's Space Coast early Sunday morning (July 13). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Sunday at 1:04 a.m. EDT (0504 GMT), on a mission SpaceX called Commercial GTO-1.

The payload is listed as "Commercial GTO-1," which the company hasn't used before. The Dror-1 satellite uses mostly Israeli technology.

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history of human spaceflight next week. Fifty years ago, on July 15, 1975, NASA launched a three-man crew on an Apollo spacecraft from Florida and two Russian cosmonauts took off from Kazakhstan,

The next astronaut launch to the International Space Station (ISS) is just around the corner.

Much of Elon Musk’s business empire is in disarray, but his rocket-and-satellite company is riding high.

Early July 13, a new SpaceX mission will lift off from Cape Canaveral. Here's what to know about Commercial GTO 1.

The company’s strategy is to raise money via a fundraising round and separately hold a tender offer to allow employees to sell some of their shares to a select group of investors.

At over 2,000 square feet in size, the FM1 satellite is designed to be roughly three times larger than the company's existing BlueBird satellites currently in orbit.