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SpaceX will launch four dozen Starlink internet satellites and land the return rocket Wednesday, March 9, and you can watch the action live.One step in two steps Falcon 9 The rocket topped with 48 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift…

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China would develop and test its hypersonic technology at an unprecedented rate. He claims to have added another engine to his arsenal that can propel him to the forefront of hypersonic racing. China's hypersonic weapons program hopes to…

MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos will launch funding in stages this year to create the country's fully reusable carrier rocket, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said Friday. "We are considering the…

January and February are dark months in the astronomical community as the anniversaries of all major loss of American life to spaceflight occur. The Apollo 1 fire occurred on January 27, the Challenger disaster on January 28, and the…

MAHIA PENINSULA, New Zealand--(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 23, 2022--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB )…

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STARBASE, United States: Elon Musk provided an update on SpaceX's efforts to develop its Starship interplanetary rocket on Thursday evening, but refrained from announcing a firm launch date for an…

BOCA CHICA, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/CNN) - Billionaire CEO Jared Isaacman is buying three more flights with SpaceX, the first of which is slated for this year and could put Isaacman and SpaceX on track to travel deeper into space than any human…

Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) has joined forces with South launch, a South Australian rocket launch facility provider. This partnership allows the German launcher RFA ONE to be launched from Southern Launch's Whalers Way…

Rocket 3 takes off from Kodiak Island. (Credit: Astra Space webcast)KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (NASA PR) – NASA's first mission under the agency's Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) Demonstration Contract 2 is scheduled to launch four…

Long-time spaceflight the dream could soon come back in full force.This month, Washington-based Radian Aerospace announced it was building a single-stage orbiting spaceplane that takes off and lands horizontally. The revelation sparked…

SpaceX successfully tested a Falcon 9 rocket tasked with launching Italy's CSG-2 Earth observation satellite as early as 6:11 p.m. EST (23:11 UTC) on Thursday,!--post-header-->…

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced the closing of the previously announced transaction to…

SpaceX is aiming to launch its next Starlink mission no earlier than Tuesday, January 18 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The instant launch window will open at 7:04 PM EST (00:04 UTC on January…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guards have tested an engine for a solid-fuel…

Cosmic Girl launches LauncherOne into the air for the first time during a drop test in July 2019. Credit: Virgin Orbit/Greg Robinson Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket detached from the company's CosmicGirl aircraft around 5:53 p.m. EST…

1/5 Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket, like the one shown here during a 2019 test over the Pacific Ocean, is set to launch again on Thursday. Photo courtesy of Greg Robinson/Virgin Orbit January 13 (UPI) --…

File photo of a stack of Starlink satellites before a previous mission. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX plans to kick off its 2022 launch program with a Falcon 9 rocket flight on Thursday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center with the company's next…

ORLANDO, FLORIDA - As SpaceX and the United Launch Alliance have sent rockets at an accelerated rate over the past few years, the Space Coast is set to get a lot busier with more commercial rocket companies ready to join the…

A tech startup that visited Unalaska in 2020 as a potential satellite launch site says it is finalizing its choice of location. And while communication between the company and the city began to…

Elon Musk had a heated exchange with Senator Elizabeth Warren over taxes. Credit: JD Laisca Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a heated exchange with Senator Elizabeth Warren on Twitter on Wednesday. Warren lashed out at Musk over a sensitive issue…

LONG BEACH, Calif .-- (BUSINESS WIRE) - December 13, 2021--Rocket Lab…

George WS Abbey never saw the launch of a Saturn V rocket in person. He was always watching from a screen in the Houston Control Center, where he worked diligently to ensure the mission was a success.Still, he was impressed with its size…

Update for December 3: Due to bad weather, Arianespace has again delayed this launch by 24 hours. Take-off is now scheduled for Saturday, December 4. The exact time of the targeted take-off has not yet been announced. Update for…

Russian news agency TASS reported that a piece of a US Pegasus carrier rocket is expected to pass the International Space Station (ISS) at a minimum distance of 5.4 km this week. In a report that totally failed to mention the debris cloud…

CAP CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov. 10 (Reuters) - NASA and private rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit Wednesday night, sending a space veteran, two young teammates chosen for future lunar missions and a German scientist…

HELSINKI - Rocket Pi of China has signed an agreement with a liquid rocket motor manufacturer to supply motors to power its reusable Darwin-1 launcher. The deal, announced by liquid oxygen methane gas engine maker Jiuzhou…

Orbital ATK's unmanned Antares rocket was launched five years ago on a resupply mission to the International Space Station from Wallops Island, Va., After a devastating launch explosion in 2016. NASA's Wallops…

The billionaire space race is just a name race. In reality, there is SpaceX - and everyone.Only the company that Elon Musk founded nearly two decades ago has sent a rocket thruster into orbit and safely landed it again. Only SpaceX…

The murals of billionaire Jeff Bezos and his space company Blue Origin are empty the day before his company sends "Star Trek" actor William Shatner into space from a company facility in Banhorn, TX. United, October 12. Decorate the sides…

The following is from Claire Aiello and Mike Ward of the Huntsville / Madison County Chamber. Rocket City, it's time to speed up our engines and prepare for takeoff of the Space Launch System (SLS), NASA's next mega-rocket that…

Japanese automaker Honda has set a goal of developing its own rockets and operating a satellite launch business. The ambitions of this company are not great. The company aspires to launch "small satellites into low Earth orbit" and hopes…

Honda is working on eVTOL electric and hybrid helicopters, designed with passengers seated in a pod suspended under eight propellers. With pure electricity, the Honda hopper can travel 100 miles.The company is also continuing the…

United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket was launched today from Space Force Base Vandenberg, despite the infamous heavy fog from the Central Coast base that made take-off difficult to see in the region. The rocket lifted off from…

China's first solar probe will be the first in the world to perform spectral imaging of the sun's H-alpha band. Photo: Zhou Yang / GTThe first Chinese solar probe, the new generation manned rocket for lunar explorations and a super…

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The Long March-7 Y3 rocket, carrying the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft, takes off from the Wenchang spacecraft launch site in southern China's Hainan Province on May 29, 2021 (Photo: Xinhua)Coming in the midst of the busy but fluid…

Rocket Lab long there has gone from being an outsider launch supplier to an industry heavyweight (with matching funding). Now the company plans to go to the Moon, Mars, and Venus over the next decade. But it may be surprising that…

Astra and Firefly have recently suffered launch failures. Firefly Aerospace Silicon Valley rocket startup Astra Space three weeks ago caused the internet to laugh after one of its small rockets wobbled and slipped to the side moments…

LONG BEACH, Calif .-- (BUSINESS WIRE) - Sep 21, 2021--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB)…

Here is a summary of current science briefs. Cambodian bat researchers on mission to track origin of COVID-19 Researchers are collecting bat samples in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to an…

The newly created quartet of citizen astronauts including the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission splashed safely in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew to ever send to…

By Steve Gorman(Reuters) - The newly created quartet of citizen astronauts including the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission splashed safely in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first…

The Department of Space (DoS) has entered into a framework memorandum of understanding with the aerospace startup Agnikul Cosmos to access ISRO's facilities and expertise for the development and testing of subsystems / systems of space…

Bangalore: The Space Department (DoS) has entered into a framework memorandum of understanding with the aerospace startup Agnikul Cosmos to access Isro's facilities and expertise for the development and testing of launcher subsystems /…

The all-civilian crew of Inspiration4 carries a special package into space in their personal gear - a digital copy of a song by an independent artist about finding meaning in existence.Freelance singer-songwriter Foxanne saw her song "I…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 15 (Reuters) - A billionaire e-commerce executive and three less wealthy private citizens chosen to join him took off from Florida on Wednesday aboard a SpaceX rocket and went into orbit, the first of all…

Going into space: it's not easy - each kilogram needs about 32,900,000 joules of energy just to reach low earth orbit. The cost associated with this energy is enormous, so every kilogram counts. Costs have decreased…

September 12 (Reuters) - Another billionaire entrepreneur set to travel to space this week, strapped inside the capsule of a SpaceX rocket as part of a team of astro-tourists ready to enter in history as the first fully civilian crew…

Rocket Lab will carry a low Earth orbit satellite designed to reduce the amount of hazardous space waste. Launched from the company's Mahia Peninsula complex later this year, the Finnish-designed AuroraSat-1 will test its new technology…

LONG BEACH, Calif .-- (COMMERCIAL THREAD) - Rocket Lab, the leading space launch and systems company, today announced that it will launch the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand starting in the fourth…

The analog dials and displays used to pilot a 40-year-old NASA space shuttle inspired the look of a new avant-garde timepiece.The UR-100V P.02 wristwatch, which was unveiled on Tuesday, July 20, merges Swiss luxury watchmaker Urwerk's…