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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter at 7:08 p.m. ET on Aug. 4 from Pad 40, 12 hours after a ULA launch.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter at 7:08 p.m. ET on Aug. 4 from Pad 40, 12 hours after a ULA launch.

Astra Space is ending use of its Rocket 3.3 iteration after two launch failures and moving to the next version of its launch system.  The rocket, part of

Astra CEO Chris Kemp told investors Thursday that the company will be no longer launch payloads with its current lightweight vehicle, Rocket 3, and will instead re-manifest all launches on a considerably larger rocket that’s still under development. It’s a big change for the company, which has operated on the hunch that customers are willing […]

Tourism officials in Floridas Space Coast are expecting a massive influx of tourists for the upcoming Artemis 1 moon mission, the first launch for NASAs Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecra

Teams from NASA’s Space Launch System Program and Northrop Grumman successfully fired a ground-based version of a booster for NASA’s mega Moon rocket at Northrop Grumman’s test facility in Promontory,

NASA has yet to get its next-generation moon rocket off the ground, but this week announced a shift in how it plans to pay for future launches while also falling under a new directive from Congress to increase the number of flights each year.

Water vapor, carbon dioxide, and concentrated sunlight can now yield kerosene

The European Space Agency has announced that the first astronaut to blast off onboard the Artemis I mission to the moon will be Shaun the Sheep.

If you're too young to be a Baby Boomer, you grew up in an era where global space programs spent decades stuck in the proverbial purgatory that is L...