Plans by the U.S. Air Force to test hypersonic rocket cargo delivery in partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been put on hold amid mounting environmental concerns over potential harm to protected wildlife on a remote Pacific atoll.
American President Donald Trump has walked back his previous support for Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, stating it would have been “inappropriate” for Isaacman to lead the space agency due to his connections with Elon Musk and his political donation history. The reversal comes weeks after Trump formally withdrew Isaacman’s nomination and amid lingering uncertainty over who will ultimately take the helm at NASA.
A memorial spaceflight carrying the ashes of 166 individuals, along with a symbolic batch of cannabis seeds, ended in tragedy after the capsule crashed into the Pacific Ocean following a re-entry anomaly, according to statements from the mission operators.
Just over a week after its latest Atlas V launch, United Launch Alliance (ULA) rolled its next Vulcan rocket to the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday morning, marking the start of preparations for the third Vulcan launch since the rocket's debut. This booster is the first to fly since Vulcan achieved full certification to carry national security payloads, a key milestone for ULA’s launch cadence and mission portfolio.
A Russian cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) after a successful launch this afternoon, carrying nearly three tons of essential supplies for the orbiting outpost.
China’s Tianwen 2 spacecraft has now traveled more than 12 million kilometers from Earth on its ambitious asteroid sample-return mission, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced Tuesday. Over a month into its journey, the probe remains in excellent condition as it continues along its planned trajectory toward the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3.
A state-of-the-art European satellite designed to enhance weather forecasting and air quality monitoring across Europe and North Africa was successfully launched into space Tuesday evening aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Blue Origin marked a major milestone today, successfully launching its 70th passenger to space aboard its New Shepard suborbital rocket. The brief yet spectacular mission, NS-33, took off at 9:39 a.m. CDT (10:39 a.m. EDT / 1439 GMT) from the company's Launch Site One in the West Texas desert.
Chinese scientists are proposing a bold and innovative mission to closely observe asteroid 99942 Apophis as it makes a historic near-Earth pass in 2029. The mission, dubbed the Apophis Recon Swarm (ARS), would dispatch a fleet of miniature spacecraft—cubesats—on multiple flybys to study the asteroid’s physical and internal characteristics, while also advancing global planetary defense capabilities.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has issued a stern warning to billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX, threatening legal action over what she described as environmental contamination and falling debris from rocket launches conducted near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Rocket Lab successfully launched a classified satellite into orbit early Friday, completing its second Electron mission in less than 48 hours and marking a record pace for its New Zealand launch site.
A highly anticipated test firing of a next-generation solid rocket booster intended for NASA’s Artemis moon missions ended with an unexpected anomaly on Wednesday, raising new questions about the future of the Space Launch System (SLS) amid shifting budget priorities.
