US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab has scheduled new dates for its first commercial rocket launch — a mission dubbed "It's Business Time." The company plans to launch its small rocket, the Electron, sometime between June 23rd and July 6th. The rocket will take off from Rocket Lab's New...
It said planned launches have sometimes been scrapped at the last minute, resulting in hours of restriced airspace and wasted emissions as planes waited at their gates. Airlines expect 145 space launches in 2023, an increase of 222% since 2020. A March 11 space...
Final preparations are underway for a Dec. 13 launch opportunity, which will mark the first time the X-37B has lifted off atop SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket.
United Launch Services LLC, Centennial, Colorado, has been awarded a $1,100,298,036 modification (P00015) to a previously awarded contract (FA8811-20-D-0001) for National Security Space (NSS) Launch Phase Two launch service procurements for NSS launch services from fiscal 2020 through fiscal...
Despite advances in tooling and the promise of DevOps, companies often struggle to design and deliver applications on schedule and on budget. One reason is that there are often unplanned, or invisible, activities and bottlenecks that steal development time and slow down their value stream. In thi...
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 workhorse rocket has secured a new US military launch contract worth $150 million, closing out a spectacularly successful year. Announced by the Department of Defence’s (DoD) Space Development Agency (SDA) on December 31st, the contract stipulates that SpaceX will launch as...
SpaceX has refuted the reporting as “factually inaccurate,” and “false.” But in Tuesday’s post, the company said “four open environmental issues” prompted the FAA to push back the next Starship launch, even though the craft has been ready since “the first week of August.” ...
aWe will complete development of next-generation space systems like the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle to take us past low Earth orbit, and set a pathway to Mars and beyond. 我们将完成下一代空间系统的发展象空间发射系统 (SLS) 和Orion多用途乘员组车采取我们...
Rocket Lab aims to rapidly boost its launch schedule with the addition of LC-2. Beck said he sees the Wallops launch site as a "boutique" launchpad for customers who are not able to travel to Rocket Lab's primary launch site, LC-1 in New Zealand. LC-1 is licensed for a launch eve...
Today's launch is SpaceX's first dedicated mission for the U.S. Space Force, which was established in December 2019 by President Donald Trump. Just like the Marine Corps functions within the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Space Force is under the umbrella of the U.S. Air Force and works to...