Nearly all of Florida, including some of those who live in the Panhandle, and those in southern Georgia, may be able to see Artemis II lift off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on its way towards the moon – the first moon mission in some 50 years.

Check back for live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch updates on this page, starting about 90 minutes before today’s SpaceX Falcon 9 launch window opens.

NASA's SLS moon rocket casts a striking silhouette against the rising sun ahead of the agency's Artemis 2 mission, currently scheduled for April 1.

NASA is counting down to the Artemis II rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center, with liftoff scheduled for around 6:24 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.

If the Artemis II lunar mission launches as scheduled Wednesday Huntsville-area residents will be able to watch it at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. The Space & Rocket Center is hosting a community watch party in the Saturn V Hall.

China targets 140 launches in 2026 amid commercial space surge China plans to conduct around 140 orbital launches this year, according to a commercial launch executive, marking a sharp acceleration in the country’s launch cadence.

Three Americans and one Canadian will embark on a 10-day journey as part of the Artemis II mission, the first to be crewed beyond low Earth orbit since the Apollo era.

By Gianluca Lo Nostro PARIS, March 31 (Reuters) - Eutelsat, Europe's main rival to Elon Musk's satellite internet provider Starlink, is in talks with India's space agency about future satellite launches as it seeks to diversify beyond SpaceX and Europe's Ariane rockets.