Launch

SpaceX launched a GPS III satellite for the U.S. Space Force on Friday afternoon in the second demonstration of accelerating the timeline to launch.  With the accelerated mission, the launch...

Firefly Aerospace and Northrop Grumman revealed the name of their co-developed rocket as Eclipse, alongside a $50 million investment by Northrop Grumman to advance production.  The companies have been working...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is targeting June 13 to launch the second batch of satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation.  This would mark a less than two-month turnaround time from...

SpaceX lost attitude control over its Starship rocket during the vehicle’s ninth test flight on Tuesday evening.  Overall, the test resulted in uncontrolled reentry of both the first stage booster and...

Starfish Space will again attempt a mission to dock with a spacecraft in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) in ‘Otter Pup 2,’ set to launch this summer.  Starfish Space launched its first...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has cleared SpaceX’s Starship vehicle to return to flight, despite the mishap investigation for Flight 8 in March remaining open. For Starship’s next flight, the...

SES has signed with Impulse Space as the first commercial customer of the Helios kick stage designed to shorten the time it takes satellites to reach operational orbit. Financial terms...

It’s a “good news, bad news” scenario for global launch services market leader SpaceX, as the company won a multi-launch deal for its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket and also received...

Varda Space Industries on Tuesday said its W-3 capsule successfully landed in South Australia following two months on orbit in a test of an inertial measurement technology in the high-hypersonic reentry...

A Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket suffered an anomaly during a Tuesday launch, losing the payload for customer Lockheed Martin.  The Alpha FLTA006 mission launched at 6:37 am PDT from Vandenberg...