China launches communications satellite
Posted: Sat, Nov 11 8:11 AM ET (1311 GMT)
China launched a communications satellite early Thursday. A Long March 3B lifted off at 6:23 am EST (1123 GMT) from the Xichang Satellite Launch...

Rocket Lab prepares to resume Electron launches
Posted: Sat, Nov 11 8:09 AM ET (1309 GMT)
Rocket Lab is preparing to resume Electron launches in late November after completing an investigation into a September launch failure. The company said Wednesday it...

Virgin Galactic to halt SpaceShipTwo flights by mid-2024
Posted: Sat, Nov 11 8:06 AM ET (1306 GMT)
Virgin Galactic plans to halt flights of its VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane by the middle of next year. The company said Wednesday that it will...

EU finalizing deal for Falcon 9 launches of Galileo satellites
Posted: Sat, Nov 11 8:04 AM ET (1304 GMT)
The European Commission is finalizing a deal to launch four Galileo navigation satellites on a pair of Falcon 9 rockets next year. At briefings during...

Virgin Galactic flies researchers and tourist on fifth commercial mission
Posted: Sun, Nov 5 12:02 PM ET (1702 GMT)
Virgin Galactic flew two researchers and a space tourist on its latest suborbital spaceflight Thursday. The Galactic 05 mission by its VSS Unity spaceplane took...

Lucy flies by binary asteroid
Posted: Sun, Nov 5 11:43 AM ET (1643 GMT)
Images from NASA's Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid it just flew by is a binary. An image released Thursday from the flyby of the...

NASA astronauts conduct spacewalk
Posted: Sun, Nov 5 11:39 AM ET (1639 GMT)
Two NASA astronauts completed most, but not all, of their planned work during a spacewalk Wednesday. Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara spend six hours...

Space Force awards launches to SpaceX and ULA
Posted: Sun, Nov 5 11:38 AM ET (1638 GMT)
The U.S. Space Force has awarded 21 launches to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance. The assignments, 11 to ULA and 10 to SpaceX, are...

China launches mapping satellite
Posted: Sun, Nov 5 11:36 AM ET (1636 GMT)
China launched a mapping satellite Tuesday. A Long March 6 lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 6:50 pm EDT (2250 GMT)...

Northrop Grumman wins SDA satellite contract
Posted: Sat, Nov 4 10:43 AM ET (1443 GMT)
Northrop Grumman has won a $732 million contract for 38 Space Development Agency (SDA) satellites. The contract, announced Monday, will be for part of SDA'...