Soyuz launches Russian intelligence satellite
Posted: Sat, Feb 13 11:23 AM ET (1623 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a Russian military satellite Feb. 2. The Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at...

SpaceX launches Starship SN9
Posted: Sat, Feb 13 11:22 AM ET (1622 GMT)
For the second time in less than two months, SpaceX launched a prototype of its Starship vehicle on a suborbital test flight Feb. 2, only...

Astra to go public through SPAC merger
Posted: Fri, Feb 5 6:33 PM ET (2333 GMT)
Small launch vehicle company Astra announced Tuesday it will go public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Astra said it will merge...

Billionaire to buy Crew Dragon flight
Posted: Fri, Feb 5 6:30 PM ET (2330 GMT)
A billionaire entrepreneur has purchased a Crew Dragon flight from SpaceX, and will use contests to fill some of its seats. Jared Isaacman, the founder...

Astronauts perform ISS spacewalk
Posted: Fri, Feb 5 6:26 PM ET (2326 GMT)
Astronauts sped through their tasks outside the space station during a spacewalk Monday. Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover completed the installation of a new battery...

Chinese commercial launch fails
Posted: Fri, Feb 5 6:22 PM ET (2322 GMT)
A Chinese commercial launch failed early Monday. The Hyperbola-1 rocket by iSpace launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at about 3 am EST (...

NASA to perform second Green Run static-fire test
Posted: Fri, Feb 5 6:21 PM ET (2321 GMT)
NASA will perform a second static-fire test of the Space Launch System core stage. NASA said Jan. 29 that it would conduct a second...

China launches military reconnaissance satellites
Posted: Sat, Jan 30 9:48 AM ET (1448 GMT)
China launched a set of military reconnaissance satellites Friday. The Long March 4C rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 11:47...

SXM-7 satellite malfunctions after launch
Posted: Sat, Jan 30 9:45 AM ET (1445 GMT)
A satellite launched for SiriusXM last month is malfunctioning. Sirius XM and satellite manufacturer Maxar Technologies said Wednesday that the SXM-7 satellite, launched Dec....

Astronauts encounter cable problems during spacewalk
Posted: Sat, Jan 30 9:42 AM ET (1442 GMT)
Spacewalking astronauts ran into problems installing an experiment platform outside the International Space Station Wednesday. Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover spent nearly seven hours...