After more than a decade of development in many forms, SpaceX’s Starship is slated to attempt its first orbital mission and deploy Starlink V3 satellites into an operational orbit. This marks a ...

NASA and Boeing have laid out a revised path for Starliner that puts an uncrewed engineering flight first, a crewed return in 2028, extra station missions on the books, and a new launcher in the ...

Luxembourg-based Space Cargo Unlimited announced on Sept. 15 that it has contracted a dedicated Starfall mission targeting a 2028 Starship launch. The company intends to fly a one-tonne “space factory ...

SpaceX rolled Ship 41 to the launch site for stacking with Booster 21, and the heat shield on that ship includes a first for the Starship program: two tiles recovered from Ship 40 after Flight 13.

As China integrates crewed and robotic missions to further its lunar exploration program, it is also advancing plans to return the first samples collected from Mars. Closer to Earth, a student-led ...

Nine orbital launches are scheduled worldwide this week. Two Falcon 9s are expected to deliver payloads from California, while a Vega C will launch Sentinel-3C & FLEX from French Guiana. Five launches ...

SpaceX has rolled Super Heavy Booster 22 out of Mega Bay 1 to Massey’s for cryogenic proof testing. Ship 42 has since joined it there on its second trip to the test site. The pair is slated to fly on ...

The European space sector is enjoying a run of advances in September, highlighted by Isar Aerospace reaching orbit on its second Spectrum flight, the United Kingdom publishing a new space strategy, ...

The European private space launch provider Isar Aerospace, headquartered in Ottobrunn, Germany, launched its Spectrum small-satellite rocket on its second mission after months of delays and aborted ...