The Artemis II team is now focused on activities at the launch pad. This week, NASA plans to perform a series of tests ...

Rocket Lab has set a new personal best for annual launch cadence, using its latest Electron flight to loft a quartet of experimental DiskSat spacecraft for the U.S. military and NASA. The mission, ...

An Electron lifts off Dec. 21 carrying a radar imaging satellite for Japanese company iQPS. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese radar imaging satellite Dec. 21 ...

LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Lab Corporation (RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today completed its second ...

NUMBERS STRAIGHT AHEAD. STU. ALL RIGHT, TONY, THANK YOU. WHAT A YEAR IT HAS BEEN ON THE SPACE COAST. HERE’S A LIVE LOOK AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. WHERE? INSIDE THE VEHICLE ASSEMBLY BUILDING RIGHT ...

After liftoff, the Falcon 9 will deploy 29 Starlink satellites. The booster should land on the drone ship A Shortfall of ...

It was a record year for spaceflight in California at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, and even more rocket launches should ...

An Indian rocket launched the record-breaking BlueBird 6 smartphone satellite to orbit on Tuesday night (Dec. 23). BlueBird 6, built by Texas company AST SpaceMobile, lifted off atop an LVM3 rocket ...

This year's sum of 109 launches shattered the short-lived annual record of 93 liftoffs set last year. That number was preceded by 72 launches in 2023.

The number of orbital launch attempts worldwide last year surpassed the record 2024 flight rate by 25 percent, with SpaceX ...