The Fram2 crew will be the first humans ever to orbit Earth’s polar regions from space.

SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket Monday night, carrying 26 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket placed 26 Starlink internet broadband satellites into low Earth orbit, lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 16, 2025.

A massive short-circuit NASA launched Relay 2, an experimental communications satellite, into orbit in 1964.