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We're potentially less than two weeks away from witnessing SpaceX's massive Starship rocket soar once again halfway around the world.

NASA has reinvigorated the race to put man on the Moon, nearly half a century after its historic Apollo missions. The agency announced that the spacecraft set to ferry a crew of four around the Moon ...

SpaceX’s Starship isn’t just revolutionary - the launch tower that supports it is a mechanical marvel. Known as “Mechazilla,” this tower doesn’t just support launches, it’s designed to catch rockets ...

Tokyo wants to double the size of the Japanese domestic space market, to ¥8 trillion (about $54 billion) from ¥4 trillion in 2020 by the early 2030s. By then, Japan wants to launch some 30 rockets ...

SpaceWERX has tapped Seattle startup Gravitics to develop an “orbital carrier”—a pre-positioned, in-space launch pad that can rapidly deploy small maneuverable spacecraft. -Funded at $60 million, the ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Solstar Space announced a NASA contract Sept. 29 to develop commercial Wi-Fi access points for the space agency’s Artemis and Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) programs.

Blue Origin is preparing for its 15 th crewed flight of a New Shepard vehicle and its 34 th flight overall since the reusable suborbital system debuted in August 2021. Our award-winning editors bring ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — The weather was looking pretty fine as SpaceX launched nearly 30 Starlink satellites on Wednesday morning. The Falcon 9 rocket sent up Starlink 10-22 mission from ...

Even with dozens or hundreds of sensor satellites in orbit to spot incoming weapons, U.S. military leaders say defending against the most advanced missile threats will require capabilities to disrupt ...

On Sept. 26, 1983, a Russian Soyuz rocket exploded on the launchpad. Two cosmonauts were inside the spacecraft, and they barely made it out alive. About 90 seconds before the rocket was supposed to ...

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will crew the Artemis 2 mission around the far side of the moon.