SpaceX performs two Starlink launches
Posted: Fri, Jul 29 6:53 PM ET (2253 GMT)
SpaceX launched two sets of Starlink launches less than 48 hours apart. One Falcon 9 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 1:...

European, Russian ISS crewmembers perform spacewalk
Posted: Fri, Jul 29 6:48 PM ET (2248 GMT)
Two ISS crew members performed a seven-hour spacewalk July 21. Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti spent seven hours and five...

Draper wins NASA contract for lunar farside lander mission
Posted: Fri, Jul 29 6:46 PM ET (2246 GMT)
Draper has won a NASA contract to deliver a suite of experiments to the far side of the moon in 2025. NASA awarded Draper a $...

NASA sets late August and early September launch dates for Artemis 1
Posted: Fri, Jul 29 6:43 PM ET (2243 GMT)
NASA has set three potential launch dates in late August and early September for the first flight of the Space Launch System. The agency said...

Falcon Heavy to launch NASA's Roman Space Telescope
Posted: Sat, Jul 23 10:01 AM ET (1401 GMT)
NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX Tuesday for the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. NASA announced SpaceX will launch the mission on...

L3Harris and Northrop Grumman win SDA contracts
Posted: Sat, Jul 23 9:56 AM ET (1356 GMT)
L3Harris and Northrop Grumman won $1.3 billion in Space Development Agency (SDA) contracts to build missile tracking satellites. SDA announced Monday it selected the...

Falcon 9 ties launch record with launch process
Posted: Sat, Jul 23 9:54 AM ET (1354 GMT)
With a Starlink launch Sunday, SpaceX has launched as many times this year as in all of 2021. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape...

China launches radar imaging satellites
Posted: Sat, Jul 23 9:52 AM ET (1352 GMT)
China launched a pair of radar imaging satellites July 15. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 6:...

NASA and Roscosmos complete seat barter agreement
Posted: Sat, Jul 23 9:50 AM ET (1350 GMT)
NASA and Roscosmos finalized a seat barter agreement that will allow the agencies to fly people on each others' spacecraft in September. NASA announced July...

Falcon 9 launches Dragon cargo spacecraft
Posted: Sat, Jul 16 11:35 AM ET (1535 GMT)
A cargo Dragon spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after a launch Thursday night. A Falcon 9 lifted off at 8:...