SpaceX launched the Crew-13 mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station on October 1, 2026.

The mission utilized a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft to reach orbit from Florida, USA. This deployment follows a separate announcement in August that a rescue mission for the Swift Observatory was aborted because the Link spacecraft could not reach the observatory.

On the same day, October 1, 2026, SpaceX also planned to launch the Transporter 18 rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:18 AM PDT. Meanwhile, the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute announced the Chuseok full moon would rise at 17:34 Seoul time on the 25th. In other deep-space activity, the SVOM mission detected the blazar 1ES 1959+650 with the ECLAIRs telescope on September 18, 2026, between 14:26:39.898 and 17:12:50.386 UTC. A lunar probe also detected a massive impact crater on the Moon's surface caused by a violent collision with a comet or asteroid.