Launch

Shares in Astra Space dropped sharply from $11.68 per-share at closing on Friday to $8.90 on Monday’s opening after the launch company experienced a launch failure over the weekend that...

A SpaceX Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Monday, carrying more than 4,800 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies, and spacecraft hardware. The ISS confirmed...

Gilmour Space Technologies, an Australian rocket company, is teaming up with Exolaunch, a German rideshare provider, to enable better a small satellite launch experience customers. The two companies announced the...

European launch service provider Arianespace successfully launched 34 satellites on Saturday for OneWeb, bringing the operator’s total fleet to 288 Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation satellites. Arianespace sent the OneWeb satellites...

Rocket Lab’s special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger is set to close, making Rocket Lab a publicly traded company. Shareholders of Vector Acquisition Corporation approved the SPAC merger with Rocket...

Arianespace launched the second high-resolution satellite in the new Airbus Defence and Space constellation on Monday on a Vega rocket, along with four rideshare cubesats.  The Vega launch vehicle took...

Rocket Lab will launch AuroraSat-1 for Finland’s Aurora Propulsion Technologies as part of a rideshare mission scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year, the New Zealand launch service provider...

Smallsat launcher Astra reported its first set of financial results since going public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger on July 1.  The company released its second-quarter 2021...

The U.S. Space Force has awarded the first on ramp of the Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 to three emerging smallsat launch providers: ABL Space Systems, Astra Space, and Relativity Space....

Earth imagery satellite operator Planet signed a multi-year launch agreement with SpaceX that includes multiple rideshare launches on the Falcon 9 rocket through the end of 2025, the companies announced...