Astra lays off 16% of staff
Posted: Sat, Nov 12 8:06 AM ET (1306 GMT)
Astra is laying off 16% of its staff as it focuses on producing spacecraft electric thrusters and developing a new launch vehicle. In financial results...

Antares launches Cygnus to ISS
Posted: Sat, Nov 12 8:05 AM ET (1305 GMT)
An Antares rocket launched a Cygnus cargo spacecraft early this morning. The Antares 230+ rocket lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia, at 5:32 am...

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Vandenberg
Posted: Sun, Oct 30 10:12 AM ET (1412 GMT)
SpaceX launched another set of Starlink satellites Thursday evening. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 9:14 pm...

Boeing takes another loss for Starliner delays
Posted: Sun, Oct 30 10:04 AM ET (1404 GMT)
Boeing took another charge against earnings because of delays in its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew program. In an SEC filing Wednesday, the company said...

Progress launched to ISS
Posted: Sun, Oct 30 9:59 AM ET (1359 GMT)
A Progress cargo spacecraft is on its way to the ISS after a launch Tuesday night. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifted off from the...

GLSV Mark 3 launches OneWeb satellites
Posted: Sun, Oct 30 9:57 AM ET (1357 GMT)
OneWeb resumed deployment of its broadband satellite constellation with a launch from India on OCt. 22. A GSLV Mark 3 rocket, also known as LVM3,...

Soyuz rockets launch classified, communications satellites
Posted: Sun, Oct 30 9:54 AM ET (1354 GMT)
One Soyuz rocket launched a pair of classified satellites Oct. 21. The Soyuz-2.1v rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia...

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites
Posted: Sun, Oct 23 10:03 AM ET (1403 GMT)
SpaceX set several milestones with a routine Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satellites Thursday. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch...

ESA to launch two missions on Falcon 9
Posted: Sun, Oct 23 10:02 AM ET (1402 GMT)
ESA will launch two of its missions on SpaceX's Falcon 9. ESA announced Thursday that it will launch the Euclid astrophysics mission and the...

Ariane 6 debut delayed to late 2023
Posted: Sun, Oct 23 10:01 AM ET (1401 GMT)
ESA announced Wednesday that the first launch of the Ariane 6 has slipped again, this time to late 2023. Officials with ESA, prime contractor ArianeGroup...