Launch

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...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) closed mishap investigations into both the SpaceX Starship flight and Blue Origin New Glenn debut that both took place on Jan. 16, the agency announced...