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Orbital ATK has successfully launched and placed into orbit the U.S. Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space 5 (ORS 5) spacecraft on Aug. 26. Its Minotaur 4 rocket launched from Cape […]

Orbital ATK announced it is in final preparations to launch its Minotaur 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on Aug. 25 at approximately 11:15 p.m. EDT. The […]

The Japanese government successfully launched its third geo-positioning satellite Michibiki 3 on Saturday, according to Reuters. The launch, which took place at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, follows […]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket has successfully orbited NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS)-M from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. […]

International Launch Services (ILS) announced the Proton Breeze M launch vehicle successfully orbited the Blagovest №11 satellite for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The Aug. 17 launch […]

A great day for our friends in Ghana as the nation celebrates launching GhanaSat 1 — its first satellite — into orbit on a SpaceX rocket. While Ghana’s government didn’t […]

Rocket Crafters Inc. (RCI) has developed a new hybrid rocket engine that is both safer and less expensive than its liquid and solid chemical engine counterparts, according to the company’s […]

Vector, a NewSpace microsatellite launch provider, conducted a successful suborbital flight of its B0.002 test vehicle, a full-scale prototype of the company’s Vector-R launch vehicle. The launch is the first […]

Arianespace has successfully launched two Earth Observation (EO) satellites for civil and military applications: Optsat 3000 for the Italian Ministry of Defense, and Venus, a joint mission between the Israel […]

Iridium Communications announced that it has targeted the upcoming Iridium Next launch for Sept. 30 at 6:30 a.m. PDT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This launch will deliver […]

Elon Musk is determined to revolutionize the transportation industry with his ambitious Hyperloop concept, despite public criticism that the idea is unrealistic. He faced a similar challenge when he set out to revolutionize the launch industry with SpaceX. Here, we revisit our interview with Musk...

Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully tested its third RS-25 engine flight controller this week at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The RS-25 engine will propel the United States’ next-generation heavy lift […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Rocket Crafters Inc. (RCI) a $542,600 research contract, for which RCI is tasked to build and test a rocket engine using its patented […]

Sierra Nevada Corporation has selected United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) commercially developed Atlas 5 rocket to launch the first two missions of its Dream Chaser cargo system in support of NASA’s […]

The Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) announced the successful launch of two Norwegian microsatellites developed and built by SFL for the Norwegian Space Center with support from the Norwegian Coastal Authority, […]

As part of its Two-Stage-To-Orbit (TSTO) technology program, the European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Orbital Access a 200,000 euro ($227,890) contract for the next stage of the development of the […]

  After two last-minute aborts over the holiday weekend, SpaceX successfully orbited a satellite for operator Intelsat on Wednesday evening, July 5. At 7:38 p.m. EDT, a Falcon 9 rocket […]

Twice this weekend, once on July 2 and again the day after, SpaceX cancelled the launch of an Intelsat satellite with less than 10 seconds left on the liftoff countdown. […]

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 […]

SpaceX successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft for the company’s 11th Commercial Resupply Services (CSR-11) mission to the International Space Station (ISS). This mission marked the first reflight of a Dragon […]

Arianespace announced a new launch services contract with Eutelsat after the launch provider successfully orbited both the Eutelsat 172B and ViaSat 2 satellites on June 1. The Arianespace order book […]