Rocket Technology & Vehicles

Isar Aerospace has signed a launch service agreement with SEOPS for a dedicated mission scheduled in 2028. Isar Aerospace’s launch vehicle ‘Spectrum’ will deploy multiple payloads into LEO from its dedicated launch complex at Andøya Space in Norway. This launch ...

ArianeGroup and Sabca have signed a new supply contract for the Ariane 6 operational phase, to secure Europe's access to space in the years ahead. The agreement covers the supply of nozzle activation systems for the main engines that will ...

Rocket Lab's HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) launch vehicle stands ready before its inaugural “Scout's Arrow” mission launch on June 18, 2023, from Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: Rocket Lab JUSTIN is the mission name for ...

Impulse Space earlier this month upgraded Mira—the company’s high-thrust, highly maneuverable spacecraft for payload hosting and deployment that already has two successful missions. The upgraded Mira will take flight on its first mission, the fully manifested LEO Express 3, later ...

Today, Blue Origin successfully completed its 14th human spaceflight and the 34th flight for the New Shepard program. The crew included: Arvi Bahal, Gökhan Erdem, Deborah Martorell, Lionel Pitchford, J.D. Russell, and H.E. Justin Sun, the winning bidder for the ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) has awarded a contract to Bollinger Shipyards to support the build out of Rocket Lab’s ocean landing platform for the company's Neutron, reusable rocket. Modification and fit-out of Rocket Lab technology to its 400-ft-long landing ...

Blue Origin has revealed the identity of the six people flying on the company's NS-33 mission—the crew includes: Allie Kuehner and her husband, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis, and James (Jim) Sitkin. The crew cabin seats ...

INNOSPACE (KS:462350) has rescheduled the first commercial launch of its small satellite launch vehicle, HANBIT-Nano, from July to the second half of 2025—the schedule adjustment follows the identification of technical inspection issues related to the vehicle’s first-stage electric pump and ...

The Bahamian Government has revealed it is looking forward to future Falcon 9 booster droneship landings in Bahamian waters, pending the satisfactory completion of the post-landing report and the approval of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) currently being finalized by ...

Blue Origin announced its 11th human flight, NS-31, will lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas on Monday, April 14. The mission includes some celebrities Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez ...

The MPGE, Multi Purpose Green Engine, is an environmentally friendly engine developed by AVIO that uses hydrogen peroxide and kerosene as propellants and is entirely designed, manufactured, assembled, and tested in Italy. The project, developed within the framework of the ...

Artistic rendition of a HANBIT-Nano launch from the Andøya Spaceport in Norway,courtesy of the company. INNOSPACE (KS: 462350) has successfully completed the Launch Pad-Vehicle Interface Integrated System Test for the HANBIT-Nano launch vehicle. INNOSPACE's Launch-Pad Vehicle Integrated System The company ...

Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 as a gateway to unite the global space community, has selected SpaceX as the recipient of the 2025 Space Achievement Award. Starship, the most powerful launch vehicle ever built, is designed for ...

Isar Aerospace is preparing for its first test flight, having successfully completed static firings of both stages of its launch vehicle ‘Spectrum’. The first flight will take place from Andøya Spaceport in Norway as soon as possible following Norwegian Civil ...

NS-30 crew Blue Origin successfully completed its tenth human spaceflight and the 30th flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Lane Bess, Jesús Calleja, Elaine Chia Hyde, Dr. Richard Scott, Tushar Shah, and an undisclosed sixth crew member ...

So far, so good, for tomorrow's New Shepard NS-29 launch from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch. The forecast calls for a temperature of 41°F, overcast clouds, 100% cloud cover and a wind speed of 3mph. The payloads will ...

The seventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch Thursday, January 16. The 60-minute launch window will open at 4:00 p.m. CT. SpaceX was scheduled to launch Starship from Boca Chica, Texas, at around 5 p.m. EST, but announced ...

Spaceflight company Orbex is to focus its operations exclusively on developing small and medium sized space rockets after switching its launch operations to SaxaVord Spaceport in Shetland. The company has decided to pause construction of its own spaceport in Sutherland ...

SpaceX is targeting Monday, November 11 for a Falcon 9 launch of 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 4:02 p.m. ET with ...

Satnews captured this image from SpaceX's streaming video SpaceX was successful in launching the 3.9-ton (3.5 metric tons) Koreasat-6A, on Monday, November 11, Veterans Day, at 12:25 PM EST where it will proceed to geostationary orbit 22,236 miles (35,786 kilometers) ...