The Orion spacecraft, which will fly four people around the Moon, arrived inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s […]
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Rocket Report: China launches with no advance warning; Europe’s drone ship
Starlink, Kuiper, and the US military all saw additions to their mega-constellations this week. SpaceX’s Starship descends toward the Indian […]
SpaceX has plans to launch Falcon Heavy from California—if anyone wants it to
Skip to content There’s no big rush to bring SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to Vandenberg Space Force Base. A SpaceX Falcon […]
Once unthinkable, NASA and Lockheed now consider launching Orion on other rockets
“We’re trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy.” The Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission, […]
SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2
This was the last flight of SpaceX’s second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year. Thirty-three methane-fueled Raptor engines power […]
Starship’s elementary era ends today with mega-rocket’s 11th test flight
Future flights of Starship will end with returns to Starbase, where the launch tower will try to catch the vehicle […]
Hans Koenigsmann, who investigated all of SpaceX’s rocket failures, is going to space
Then she kind of asked me, “Do you think I could be an astronaut?” I mean, technically, you don’t need […]
Putin OKs plan to turn Russian spacecraft into flying billboards
These are tough times for Russia’s civilian space program. In the last few years, Russia has cut back on the […]
Rocket Report: Bezos’ firm will package satellites for launch; Starship on deck
The long, winding road for Franklin Chang-Diaz’s plasma rocket engine takes another turn. Blue Origin’s second New Glenn booster left […]
A record supply load won’t reach the International Space Station as scheduled
The damage occurred during the shipment of the spacecraft’s pressurized cargo module from its manufacturer in Italy. While Northrop Grumman […]