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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched Sunday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for the NROL-107 national security mission.

How to turn your strange sighting into a perfectly identifiable flying object.

China has added to its growing network of classified Yaogan series satellites with a pair of Long March rocket launches, adding a third satellite in the Yaogan 33 series of classified Chinese remote sensing satellites.

SpaceX teams set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket Friday night with more Starlink satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

United Launch Alliance will attempt to send its Atlas V rocket skyward from Cape Canaveral, carrying with it a payload meant to bolster U.S. “space domain awareness.”

Japan launches X-ray telescope and lunar lander on HII-A rocket for universe exploration and moon landing preparations

Japan launched a rocket Thursday carrying an X-ray telescope that will explore the origins of the universe as well as a small lunar lander. The launch of the HII-A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan was shown on live video by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA. “We have a liftoff,” the narrator at JAXA said as the rocket flew up in a burst of smoke then flew over the Pacific.

The HII-A rocket launch from Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima was shown on live video by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as Jaxa.

Japan launched a rocket Thursday with the aim of landing a small probe on the moon, hoping to become the fifth country to do so. The launch carries two missions, the lunar probe as well as a high-tech X-ray telescope which may help scientists uncover the mysteries of how the universe was created, the Japanese…

SpaceX test will see Mars-bound rocket reach orbit for the first time