"If you're flying rockets in space, and you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong," said the researcher who led the mission.

In an unprecedented surge of space activity, six rockets lifted off from various global launch sites within a span of just 18 hours between April 28 and 29, 2025. This rapid-fire succession of ...

The batch of satellites are due to hitch a ride on a United Launch Alliance rocket, which is scheduled to get off the ground from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The venture is meant to challenge Starlink, ...

・Rocket Lab noted in November that it has had 18 Electron launches in 2025 with 100% mission success. ・In November, the company said that it had postponed the launch of its Neutron rocket into 2026.

(This story has been updated with the latest target launch time information.) United Launch Alliance crews are now targeting 7 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 9, to launch an Atlas V rocket carrying ...

Liftoff is targeted for Saturday, Aug. 23 from the company's Launch Site One in rural West Texas. Blue Origin will provide a webcast of the launch beginning about 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled ...

POKER FLAT RESEARCH RANGE — After 35 years of driving to work over a small mountain each day, Kathe Rich will soon make her last daily ascent of Cleary Summit. The longtime director of this university ...

On Thursday, two high-profile rocket launches ended up with very different outcomes. For SpaceX, its South Texas launch of a Starship rocket as part of its ongoing mission to Mars project ended with ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...