Virgin Orbit's first attempt at an orbital launch demo may not have gone entirely to plan (the LauncherOne rocket released as planned but its flight was cut short just after that), but it has booked a ...

Unlike the Thunderbird Station, most space stations require several launches to fully lift into orbit. Thunderbird can be ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Firefly Aerospace There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly ...

Employees of Virgin Orbit, the company spun off from Virgin Galactic to focus on LauncherOne, pose at the company's Long Beach, California, facility. Credit: Virgin Orbit. Virgin Orbit PARIS — Virgin ...

Four weeks ago, as two Russian cosmonauts were preparing to conduct a spacewalk, a Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space Station started to leak uncontrollably. The spacewalk was ...

Right now, hundreds of space startups are racing to develop newer, smaller rockets, in order to take advantage of the proliferation of smaller satellites within the aerospace industry. Many of these ...

D-Orbit's ION Satellite Carrier will serve as a miniature laboratory, testbed for optical intersatellite links and satellite servicing target under contracts awarded as part of Italy's National ...

Update May 25th, 5:20PM ET: Virgin Orbit’s test flight ended in failure shortly after LauncherOne dropped from under the company’s carrier 747 airplane. Virgin Orbit confirmed that the drop was ...

The FCC approved SpaceX's application to have 2,824 satellites at a lower orbit. The approval brings SpaceX's number of allowed satellites at that orbit to 4,408. The FCC addressed concerns about ...

There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission. Firefly's lunar lander, named Blue Ghost, entered orbit around the moon last week, ending ...