Launch

Virgin Orbit ended the launch demonstration of its small satellite air-launched LauncherOne rocket early on Monday, when an anomaly occurred early in the first stage of the rocket’s flight. Much...

Skyrora recently completed a full static fire test of a mobile launch complex with a Skylark L rocket — a milestone that the U.K. smallsat launch company said shows the vehicle...

Commercial satellite operators are experiencing significant changes that are part of a shift from a legacy Geostationary (GEO) communications satellite broadcasting business to more data-centric use cases. The commercial GEO...

SpaceX’s Senior Vice President of Production and Launch, Zachary Dunn, is moving to Relativity Space as the company’s vice president of Factory Development, Relativity announced Monday. Eric Berger of Ars...

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $2.3 billion contract for early hardware procurement to build two satellites for missile warning in polar orbits under the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the Atlas V 501 from Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, at 9:14 a.m. EDT, carrying the...

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. announced May 6 that it has secured AS9100 quality certification — a key quality milestone as the company transitions from the developmental phase to the first launch of...

On Friday May 1, Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company completed the first SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico. This was the first time the spaceship...

Gwynne Shotwell’s heart is in her throat. With one gesture, SpaceX’s President and COO Gwynne Shotwell gave a glimpse into her perspective ahead of the historic NASA and SpaceX Demo-2...

NASA has announced that Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX will design and develop human landing systems for the Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the surface of moon...