SpaceX attempted to launch a highly classified payload — codenamed Zuma — for the U.S. government on Sunday, Jan. 7. According to SpaceX, Falcon 9 completed its job as planned,...
Triumph Group announced that its Integrated Systems business unit will provide the landing gear system for the Dream Chaser spacecraft, a reusable, lifting-body vehicle in support of NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services...
SpaceX is preparing to launch a highly classified payload for the U.S. government this week, known only as “Zuma.” Other than it being a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite, no...
Each year, the global space industry raises the bar on what mankind is able to accomplish beyond the confines of the Earth’s atmosphere. Amid the uprise of fully reusable rockets...
RSC Energia announced Friday that it successfully restored its communications link with the AngoSat 1 spacecraft. Energia lost contact with the satellite shortly after its launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in...
JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries successfully launched two new Earth Observation (EO) satellites in the days before Christmas: the Global Change Observation Mission–Climate (GCOM-C) spacecraft, nicknamed Shikisai, and the Super...
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced an official launch date — January 10 — for its Cartosat 2 satellite and 31 other secondary payloads. This is the first...
SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy rocket has gone vertical for the first time on Launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Now upright, the rocket will undergo testing ahead of...
India’s space industry has had a banner year, with the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) bringing its number of total successful launches to 39. For...
SpaceX has officially reached the midway point of the Iridium Next launch campaign, lofting an additional 10 satellites for the constellation in the evening hours of Dec. 22. Illuminated against...