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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Six missions are scheduled to launch from launch sites across the globe this week. After SpaceX flew its last planned Falcon 9 Starlink mission from Florida, the veteran medium-lift rocket is expected ...

The European Space Agency has signed the first contracts under its European Launcher Challenge, committing €543.6 million to three European rocket startups as it tries to broaden the continent’s ...

Future Booster production is also advancing. Booster 22, currently assigned to Flight 15, sits fully stacked inside Mega Bay 1 after completing stacking last week. Based on the pattern of previous ...

LandSpace achieved a major milestone for Chinese commercial rocketry this week when the first stage of its Zhuque-3 successfully soft-landed on a recovery pad in the Gobi Desert following its second ...

While Ship 40 is preparing to be transported back to Starbase from Christmas Island, Ship 41 has completed both of its static fires and will soon roll back to Mega Bay 2 for final flight preps.

After last week’s Chang Zheng 7A launch failure, China returns to action with the high-profile Chang’e 7 robotic lunar mission and the second test flight of the ZhuQue-3 partially reusable launcher.

While SpaceX has now flown two flights out of the newly designed Pad 2, crews continue to press on with the retrofit of Pad 1. This retrofit will bring the launch pad up to spec with Pad 2, LC-39A, ...