The third GPS III satellite launch will take place in late June at the earliest, two months later than scheduled, to minimize the potential of COVID-19 exposure to personnel, the U.S. Space Force said April 7. The service had originally scheduled the launch for late April 2020, but the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC)…

Boeing has agreed to repeat the test flight of its Starliner space capsule, a decision that sets its crewed space ambitions back by months and makes it likely SpaceX will win the race to return NASA’s astronauts to space from United States soil. The announcement comes after the initial flight late last year was marred by…

Virgin Orbit plans to build a horizontal launch site in Oita, a coastal prefecture on Japan’s Kyushu Island. The smallsat company announced April 2 it is working with regional partners ANA Holdings Inc. and the Space Port Japan Association, and the Oita Airport is its preferred pilot launch site for a mission to space as…

United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) payload for the U.S. Space Force from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Thursday at 4:18 p.m. EST. The AEHF payload was the final satellite in the protected satellite communications constellation and the first national security mission…