Launch

United Launch Alliance (ULA) placed an order for Northrop Grumman’s Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM) motors worth more than $2 billion to support launches for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation.  The award, […]

As satellites become more diverse in size and mission requirements, the launch industry is evolving to tailor custom solutions between dedicated missions, rideshare, and new launch vehicles in development.  Rocket […]

Colorado-based Ursa Major is developing its reusable Arroway 200,000-pound thrust liquid oxygen and methane staged combustion engine for military and commercial use. The development comes as the Department of the Air Force […]

Space Systems Command ordered five launches from United Launch Alliance (ULA) and three launches from SpaceX for national security missions on May 26.  ULA was awarded five missions using the […]

SpaceX launched 59 spacecraft to orbit in a rideshare mission on Wednesday. The Transporter-5 mission was the fifth mission in SpaceX’s dedicated smallsat rideshare launch program.  The Falcon 9 rocket […]

Virgin Orbit is preparing for its next launch set for late June to support the U.S. Space Force’s STP-28A mission, the company announced Monday.  The mission, set for no earlier […]

Gilmour Space Technologies won a contract from the Australian government to develop and launch a new sovereign surveillance satellite. The company will be developing a prototype G-class satellite for the […]

Phantom Space Corp. on Wednesday said it has ordered more than 200 rocket engines from Ursa Major for its two low-cost launch vehicles with plans to launch the Daytona rocket in 2023, a […]

Rocket Lab successfully launched 34 satellites, and caught the Electron booster used in the mission in mid-air with a helicopter early Tuesday. This was the first time Rocket Lab performed […]

Raytheon Technologies on Thursday said its Missiles and Defense segment has invested in Firehawk Aerospace, a startup developing and manufacturing lower cost, high-performance hybrid rocket engines. The size of the Series […]

Space transportation and infrastructure services company Momentus received a license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday authorizing the company to use radio frequencies to communicate with its Vigoride […]

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) won the 2022 round of the German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) microlauncher competition for an 11 million euro ($11.7 million) prize. As a result, the German government […]

Virgin Orbit renamed its U.S. government subsidiary, formerly VOX Space, as Virgin Orbit National Systems. Virgin Orbit National Systems President and retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Mark Baird said […]

Rocket Lab will launch satellites for HawkEye 360 on its first mission from Launch Complex 2 on Wallops Island in Virginia. Rocket Lab announced Tuesday that the mission is set […]

OneWeb signed a launch agreement with New Space India Limited, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for a 2022 launch, the company announced Wednesday.  OneWeb is […]

SpaceX launched a classified satellite early Sunday morning for the National Reconnaissance Office, using a flight-proven booster, marking the first time an NRO mission has flown on a reused rocket. […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has awarded L3Harris Technologies a contract to provide avionics and communication equipment to support Amazon’s Project Kuiper launches. The contract, announced April 15, covers a five-year […]

French space company Exotrail will debut a new orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) for rideshare missions called the SpaceVan on the SpaceX rideshare mission set for October 2023.  The company said […]

Aerojet Rocketdyne secured its largest-ever RL10 engine contract to deliver 116 engines for United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur Rocket. Aerojet announced the deal on Monday, financial terms were not disclosed. The […]

SpaceX launched an all-private astronaut crew to the International Space Station on Friday, marking the first such mission to the ISS. The mission is for Axiom Space, a company working […]

The commercial reality of parabolic flights launched from the United Kingdom is now one step closer with the news that Blue Abyss, and 0-G Launch have signed a memorandum of understanding to […]

OneWeb signed a deal with SpaceX to resume satellite launches after its Soyuz launch campaign was stymied due to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The companies announced Monday that the first […]

The first Astranis Space Technologies MicroGEO satellite is ready to ship to the launch site after completing final testing, the company announced Wednesday.  Astranis has completed vibration and vibroacoustic tests, […]

Skyrora has opened a new rocket engine testing facility in Scotland, the company announced March 15. The site allows Skyrora to concentrate its launch development operations for the purpose of […]

Astra Space successfully deployed its first customer payloads on Tuesday, bouncing back after a launch failure last month.  An Astra rocket took off from the Astra Spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska […]

Rideshare provider Spaceflight signed a multi-launch agreement with Astra Space, and is targeting the first launch under the agreement on Tuesday. Spaceflight and Astra announced the agreement on Monday, and […]

Virgin Orbit will launch the first satellite developed in Wales on the launcher’s first mission out of Spaceport Cornwall in the United Kingdom this summer. Space Forge, which is based […]

Smallsat launcher company Astra released an update on its investigation into the Rocket 3.3. launch failure on Feb. 10.  Astra said in a Monday announcement that the payload fairing did […]

OneWeb’s board of directors voted to suspend all launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and Arianespace is suspending Soyuz launches as the companies rejected steep demands from the Russian […]

SpaceX launched a batch of Starlink satellites on Thursday morning, as the constellation is getting global attention for providing internet connectivity in the Ukraine.  A Falcon 9 rocket took off […]