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Rocket Lab reports quarterly earnings
Posted: Sun, May 22 9:11 AM ET (1311 GMT)
Rocket Lab said most of its first-quarter revenue did not come from rockets. The company reported Monday $40.7 million in revenue, along with...

SpaceX performs back-to-back Starlink launches
Posted: Sun, May 22 9:10 AM ET (1310 GMT)
SpaceX launched two sets of Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launches on opposite coasts less than 24 hours apart. One Falcon 9 lifted off from...

Hyperbola-1 launch fails
Posted: Sun, May 15 9:23 AM ET (1323 GMT)
Chinese launch startup iSpace suffered its third consecutive launch failure Friday. The company's Hyperbola-1, a four-stage solid rocket, lifted off from the...

Astronomers release first image of black hole in Milky Way core
Posted: Sun, May 15 9:22 AM ET (1322 GMT)
Astronomers released Thursday the first image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. The image of the black hole, four...

Boeing considers Starliner valve redesign
Posted: Sun, May 15 9:20 AM ET (1320 GMT)
Boeing says it's considering a long-term design change for valves on its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle to fix corrosion discovered last...

China launches cargo spacecraft to space station
Posted: Sun, May 15 9:19 AM ET (1319 GMT)
A cargo spacecraft docked with China's space station hours after its launch Monday. A Long March 7 lifted off from the Wenchang Satellite Launch...

Virgin Galactic delays start of commercial suborbital flights again
Posted: Wed, May 11 3:05 PM ET (1905 GMT)
Virgin Galactic is delaying the start of commercial suborbital spaceflights again. The company said in an earnings call last week that it pushed back the...

Telesat cuts Lightspeed constellation by a third
Posted: Wed, May 11 3:04 PM ET (1904 GMT)
Telesat is cutting the size of its Lightspeed constellation by a third because of cost increases. In an earnings call Friday, the company said that...

Falcon 9 launches Starlink satellites
Posted: Wed, May 11 3:03 PM ET (1903 GMT)
A Falcon 9 launched another set of Starlink satellites May 6. A Falcon 9 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 5:42 am...

Crew Dragon returns Crew-3 astronauts from ISS
Posted: Wed, May 11 3:02 PM ET (1902 GMT)
Four astronauts are back on Earth after nearly six months on the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance splashed down in the Gulf...



news in brief
China launches Shenzhou-21
Posted: Sat, Nov 1 11:22 AM ET (1522 GMT)

EnduroSat raises $104 million
Posted: Sat, Nov 1 11:18 AM ET (1518 GMT)

SpaceX touts simplified lunar lander architecture
Posted: Sat, Nov 1 11:14 AM ET (1514 GMT)

news links
Thursday, November 6
South Korea Set to Join Space Data Center Race
BusinessKorea — 6:50 am ET (1150 GMT)
Blue Origin Targets New Glenn Flight 2 For Nov. 9
Aviation Week — 6:48 am ET (1148 GMT)


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