Launch

Geospatial intelligence and global monitoring services BlackSky could be ready to launch the eighth and ninth satellites of its Earth observation constellation on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket as early...

Virgin Orbit announced it will launch its next LauncherOne mission carrying payloads for the US Department of Defense, the Royal Netherlands Air Force, and SatRevolution in June. The launch will...

SpaceX successfully executed a high-altitude flight test of its Starship rocket Wednesday evening, nailing the landing. This was the first successful high-altitude Starship test to date. The prototype SN15 took...

Smallsat launcher in development Firefly Aerospace has closed an oversubscribed $75 million Series A funding round, which values the company at more than $1 billion. The funding round, announced May...

SpaceX launched another batch of 60 Starlink satellites on Tuesday afternoon. A Falcon 9 rocket took off from Launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral Florida...

Virgin Orbit took another step toward bringing space launch capabilities to the United Kingdom by contracting AVS Added Value Solutions UK (AVS) to build a ground operating system at the...

Arianespace’s Vega rocket returned to flight on Wednesday evening, launching a next-generation Earth Observation (EO) Pléiades Neo satellite for Airbus, along with five rideshare small satellites. The launch from French Guiana...

Brazil is one step closer to finally achieving domestic orbital-class launch capabilities. On Wednesday, the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) and Brazilian Air Force signed a contract with Virgin Orbit to...

German rocket developer Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has signed a launch contracts with OHB Cosmos and LuxSpace, for dedicated missions between mid-2024 and 2025.  The deals, announced Tuesday, are for...

OneWeb has seen another 36 satellites successfully launched as it looks to build up its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. Arianespace and launch partner Glavkosmos launched the satellites from the Vostochny...