Launch

Rocket Lab has signed a deal with Japanese satellite company Synspective to launch its first satellite, the companies announced Tuesday. Rocket plans to launch Synspective’s StriX-α Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)...

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) has awarded Virgin Orbit subsidiary VOX Space a $35 million contract to launch three dedicated missions using its LauncherOne rocket to deliver 44 small satellites...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems has opened a new spacecraft development, integration and test factory outside of Denver, the company announced April 9. The new, 33,000-square- foot facility in Centennial, Colorado,...

Chinese state media Xinhua.net reported Thursday that a Long March-3B rocket mission carrying Indonesian communications satellite Palapa-N1/Nusantara Dua failed.  According to Xinhua, abnormal conditions in the third stage caused the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rocket Lab announced on Tuesday that it has paused preparation on its next launch in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The mission was scheduled to lift off from Launch Complex...

  Arianespace performed its second OneWeb launch in 2020 on Saturday, March 21, launching 34 satellites into orbit aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle. Arianespace and Starsem carried out Flight ST28...