Launch

AST SpaceMobile has signed on for Blue Origin’s upcoming New Glenn rocket. The launch agreement announced Thursday covers multiple New Glenn launches from Blue Origin’s launch complex at Cape Canaveral...

Rocket Lab announced its first launch deal for the upcoming medium-lift Neutron rocket —  a multi-launch agreement with an unnamed commercial satellite constellation operator.  Rocket Lab announced the deal on...

Firefly Aerospace has raised $175 million in new venture capital that will help it boost production of a multi-mission orbital vehicle and its small lift rocket, and accelerate hardware qualification of...

SpaceX launched the Koreasat-6A satellite for Korean satellite operator KT SAT on Monday. Koreasat-6A will deliver both broadcast and fixed satellite services to South Korea.  A Falcon 9 rocket launched...

Arianespace and ArianeGroup are targeting the first commercial flight of the Ariane 6 rocket to take place in the first quarter of 2025, mid-February at the earliest.  This comes after...

Rocket Lab reached a new record for Electron missions in one year, launching its 12th mission of 2024 on Tuesday night from New Zealand. The Electron mission carried a single...

Japan’s H3 rocket launched a Japanese military communications satellite on Monday. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed the successful mission post-launch.  The H3 rocket launched the Kirameki No. 3 satellite...

U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) on Wednesday released a new solicitation for Phase 3, Lane 1 of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program, and SSC said that it...

The NROL-167 mission launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., is a step toward what the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is calling “the U.S....

Smallsat launcher Astra announced a new award from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Wednesday, months after taking the company private.  The DIU awarded Astra a contract worth up to...