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The United Kingdom must regulate on a risk-aware, yet enabling, basis — allowing low cost launch capabilities, including space planes, to be the "steam locomotive" of the 21st century.

Airbus Safran Launchers, which became ArianeGroup on July 1, has begun construction of the combustion chamber of the first flight model of the Vinci engine at its Ottobrun site near...

The U.S. Air Force announced it has awarded United Launch Alliance (ULA) a contract to launch the Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) mission. This contract resulted from a competitive award under...

Arianespace has successfully orbited the Hellas Sat 3-Inmarsat S EAN condosat, composed of two payloads for operators Hellas Sat and Inmarsat, as well as the GSAT 17 satellite for the...

Iridium Communications announced the successful second launch of its next-generation network, Iridium Next. This payload of 10 satellites deployed into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) approximately one hour after a SpaceX...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus Safran Launchers, the 50/50 joint-venture set up by the Airbus and Safran groups, which will become ArianeGroup on July 1, signed the first...

PacSci EMC has successfully launched its own on-orbit technology demonstrator satellite, PacSciSat. The company will conduct payload tests to prove the performance of several of its commercial space technologies once...

Airbus Defence and Space and Arianespace announced they have signed a launch services contract for the next generation of very-high-resolution optical observation satellites. Two Vega C launchers will orbit the...

After pushing back the launch of a Bulgarian communications satellite on Sunday, June 18, SpaceX announced it could proceed with “double-header” launches this coming weekend. Falcon 9 was set to...

International Launch Services (ILS) successfully delivered the EchoStar 21 satellite into orbit on June 7 atop an ILS Proton for EchoStar. According to manufacturer SSL, the satellite deployed its solar arrays...