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Long Beach, California. August 07, 2024 – Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has scheduled the launch for its 52ndElectron mission which will deploy a single satellite...
Blue Origin's first New Glenn heavy-lift rocket stands atop its Launch Complex 36 pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ahead of its first test flight. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is on...
NASA has successfully launched its next-generation SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft on a test flight to the moon, ushering in a new era of space exploration. Packing 8.8 million pounds of thrust at launch, the world’s most powerful operational rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center ...
An engine malfunction has grounded the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and highlighted how much the US depends on it for access to space.
NASA won't fly manned tests of its next spacecraft, the Orion MPCV, until at least 2021, according to top administrators at the agency. The agency has been developing Orion and the Space Launch System heavy-lift launch vehicle, the rocket that will power the spacecraft, since last year. ...
He is scheduled to lead another Polaris mission aboard a SpaceX capsule before leading the first crew to space aboard the California rocket builder's gargantuan Super Heavy-Starship rocket. Dates have not been announced for either of those missions, and it's not yet clear what impact Isaacman...
The Orion capsule after splashing down in the ocean off California on December 11, 2022 at the end of the uncrewed Artemis I test flight. Screengrab. That next launch, Artemis II, is the first Orion with a life support system and will take four astronauts on a test flight around the Moo...
SpaceX successfully launched two next-generation Earth observation satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 11:36 am PT. These two satellites, built by Maxar Technologies, are the first of six currently planned to replace older observation satellites...
In 2023, NASA will launch VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover), which will trek across the surface of the moon and hunt for water ice that could one day be used to make rocket fuel. The rover will be armed with the best instruments and tools that NASA can come up with...