Launch

Natasha Nicholson is the new CEO of Space Scotland, an industry-led body that represents Scotland’s fast-growing space sector. Her appointment comes at a pivotal moment for Scotland’s space ambitions, with […]

The UK Civil Aviation Authority has granted Skyrora a license to launch its suborbital rocket from the SaxaVord Spaceport.  The approval, announced Tuesday, allows Skyrora to launch up to 16 […]

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the Boeing X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The eighth X-37B mission is set […]

Arianespace launched the second Vega C mission of 2025 on Friday evening, with Airbus Defence and Space‘s CO3D satellites and the CNES MicroCarb satellite. The VV27 mission launched from Europe’s […]

Launch startup iRocket plans to go public in a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with a blank check company backed by former U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.  iRocket announced […]

SpaceX launched NASA’s Tracers satellite mission on Wednesday afternoon, along with payloads for a number of rideshare customers. The Falcon 9 mission took off from Vandenberg Space Force Station in […]

SpaceX launched the ninth and tenth satellites in SES’s O3b mPOWER constellation on Tuesday evening. These two satellites will join the first eight satellites already in service, adding capacity to […]

SpaceX launched the third Amazon Project Kuiper mission early Wednesday morning from Cape Canaveral, marking the first SpaceX launch in Amazon’s constellation deployment.  SpaceX launched 24 Kuiper satellites at 2:30 […]

Globalstar has signed a second launch deal with SpaceX, which will launch part of its constellation upgrade on a Falcon 9 mission. The mission will launch nine satellites and is […]

Orbex and Exolaunch are teaming up to provide end-to-end launch services for small satellites in an interesting collaboration between a U.K. and a German space company. Exolaunch will utilize launch […]

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) said on Friday that it has awarded SpaceX a nearly $82 million contract to launch the USSF-178 mission under a National Security Space […]

Rocket Lab launched four satellites for HawkEye 360, including three radio frequency (RF) tracking satellites and one experimental satellite.  The mission took place early morning on Friday, June 27 from […]

Amazon and United Launch Alliance are ramping up the campaign to deploy Project Kuiper satellites, launching the second full-scale mission early Monday morning with 27 satellites.  ULA launched the Kuiper […]

SpaceX launched the Transporter-14 rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, carrying 70 payloads for a number of smallsat customers. This comes a few days after the company’s Starship […]

The Canadian province of Nova Scotia will issue a Capital Investment Tax Credit (CITC) worth approximately $10.5 million (Canadian Dollars) to Maritime Launch Services, a Canadian space company that has […]

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 […]

Arianespace has completed its second major launch of the year and the first involving its Vega C launcher in 2025. It has launched the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Explorer […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the first full-scale mission for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation on Monday evening, starting the deployment phase of Amazon’s competitor to Starlink and OneWeb.  ULA launched […]

SpaceX launched the third Bandwagon rideshare mission on Monday evening, launching satellites for Korea’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD), Tomorrow.io, and Atmos Space Cargo.  Bandwagon is a SpaceX rideshare mission […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is now planning for the first full-scale launch for Amazon Project Kuiper on Monday April 28, at 7 p.m. ET. The mission was set to launch […]

U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin nearly $14 billion in National Security Space Launch (NSSL) contracts on Friday. SSC said […]