The mission is scheduled to launch during a 14-day window that opens on August 11thfrom Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. The mission will deploy Capella’s Acadia-3 SAR satellite, a synthetic aperture radar satellite for Earth imagery and observation, to...
The new heavy-duty launch vehicle will be the world's most powerful rocket designed to carry unmatched payloads into deep space. Unlike any other space rocket, the SLS has been created to evolve alongside advancing technology. Its modular design and interchangeable parts means that it can evolve...
AstroForge's Odin asteroid-scouting spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in February 2025. (Image credit: AstroForge) A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. California-based Astro...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Thursday, March 2, for next available Crew-6 launch attempt after the original launch attempt was scrubbed early Monday. The launch of the Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station was originally scheduled at 1:45 ...
It would be the first launch of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in eight years, since NASA’s shuttle program ended. They have been riding Russian rockets to get to and from the space station, costing NASA tens of millions of dollars per seat. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket scheduled to so...
Construction of the launch site began in July 2022, and regular launches are planned for 2024. So far, the equipment installation at the No. 1 launch pad has been almost completed, while the No. 2 launch pad is scheduled to complete its civil construction in February 2024 with on-site ins...
Euclid was one such mission. Development of the small near-infrared space telescope began in the early 2010s and was predicted to cost “more than 1 billion Euros” as of 2013. At the time, a European Soyuz 2.1 rocket was scheduled to launch Euclid to the Sun-Earth system’s L2 Lagrange...
China's next manned mission, the Shenzhou XVIII, is scheduled to be launched in coming days to transport three astronauts to the Tiangong space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The Shenzhou XVIII crew spacecraft and its carrier, a Long March 2F rocket, were moved to the...
SpaceX said it was “stuck in a reality where it takes longer to do the government paperwork to license a rocket launch than it does to design and build the actual hardware,” adding that this “should never happen” and “directly threatens America’s position as the leader in space....
“Every crewed launch that I have ever watched has really brought me a lot of emotion. This one today was especially unique,” a teary-eyed Cardman said following the early afternoon liftoff. “It was hard not to watch that rocket lift off without thinking,...