Rocket Technology & Vehicles
Rocket Lab selects Bollinger Shipyards to support modification of Neutron landing platform
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) has awarded a contract to Bollinger Shipyards to support the build out of Rocket Lab’s ocean landing platform for the company's Neutron, reusable rocket. Modification and fit-out of Rocket Lab technology to its 400-ft-long landing ...
The next flight crew for New Shepard Flight NS-33 announced by Blue Origin
Blue Origin has revealed the identity of the six people flying on the company's NS-33 mission—the crew includes: Allie Kuehner and her husband, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis, and James (Jim) Sitkin. The crew cabin seats ...
INNOSPACE reschedules 1st commercial launch of HANBIT-Nano to 2nd half of 2025
INNOSPACE (KS:462350) has rescheduled the first commercial launch of its small satellite launch vehicle, HANBIT-Nano, from July to the second half of 2025—the schedule adjustment follows the identification of technical inspection issues related to the vehicle’s first-stage electric pump and ...
The Bahamas: Future SpaceX Falcon 9 landings pending EIA approval
The Bahamian Government has revealed it is looking forward to future Falcon 9 booster droneship landings in Bahamian waters, pending the satisfactory completion of the post-landing report and the approval of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) currently being finalized by ...
Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-31 ‘glam’ human crew to launch on Monday
Blue Origin announced its 11th human flight, NS-31, will lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas on Monday, April 14. The mission includes some celebrities Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez ...
AVIO’s 1st bipropellant firing tests of the MPGE engine are successful
The MPGE, Multi Purpose Green Engine, is an environmentally friendly engine developed by AVIO that uses hydrogen peroxide and kerosene as propellants and is entirely designed, manufactured, assembled, and tested in Italy. The project, developed within the framework of the ...
INNOSPACE completes the launch pad-vehicle interface integrated system test for the HANBIT-Nano launch vehicle
Artistic rendition of a HANBIT-Nano launch from the Andøya Spaceport in Norway,courtesy of the company. INNOSPACE (KS: 462350) has successfully completed the Launch Pad-Vehicle Interface Integrated System Test for the HANBIT-Nano launch vehicle. INNOSPACE's Launch-Pad Vehicle Integrated System The company ...
Space Foundation names SpaceX Starship mission team as 2025 Space Achievement Award recipient
Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 as a gateway to unite the global space community, has selected SpaceX as the recipient of the 2025 Space Achievement Award. Starship, the most powerful launch vehicle ever built, is designed for ...
Isar Aerospace successfully completes Stage 1 + 2 static fire tests—test flight prep starts
Isar Aerospace is preparing for its first test flight, having successfully completed static firings of both stages of its launch vehicle ‘Spectrum’. The first flight will take place from Andøya Spaceport in Norway as soon as possible following Norwegian Civil ...
Blue Origin’s successful human spaceflight mission NS-30 and “the life-changing impact of seeing Earth from Space”
NS-30 crew Blue Origin successfully completed its tenth human spaceflight and the 30th flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Lane Bess, Jesús Calleja, Elaine Chia Hyde, Dr. Richard Scott, Tushar Shah, and an undisclosed sixth crew member ...
Blue Origin says Go! to New Shepard’s NS-29 Tuesday mission
So far, so good, for tomorrow's New Shepard NS-29 launch from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch. The forecast calls for a temperature of 41°F, overcast clouds, 100% cloud cover and a wind speed of 3mph. The payloads will ...
SpaceX’s Starship flight test seven now on Thursday
The seventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch Thursday, January 16. The 60-minute launch window will open at 4:00 p.m. CT. SpaceX was scheduled to launch Starship from Boca Chica, Texas, at around 5 p.m. EST, but announced ...
Orbex starting development of medium sized launch vehicle + operations going to SaxaVord
Spaceflight company Orbex is to focus its operations exclusively on developing small and medium sized space rockets after switching its launch operations to SaxaVord Spaceport in Shetland. The company has decided to pause construction of its own spaceport in Sutherland ...
SpaceX salutes Starlink Group 6-69 as smallsats and Koreasat-6A each soar on Veterans Day
SpaceX is targeting Monday, November 11 for a Falcon 9 launch of 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 4:02 p.m. ET with ...
SpaceX launches Koreasat-6A on Veterans Day to improve items including the GPS position error from current 15-33 meter to 1.0-1.6
Satnews captured this image from SpaceX's streaming video SpaceX was successful in launching the 3.9-ton (3.5 metric tons) Koreasat-6A, on Monday, November 11, Veterans Day, at 12:25 PM EST where it will proceed to geostationary orbit 22,236 miles (35,786 kilometers) ...
SmallSat Europe 2025 is big on speakers and exhibitors and is now receiving presentations
SmallSat Europe 2025 is ramping up with notable speakers and exhibitors and leading technical and business attendees. This event takes place in May 27-28, 2025, in RAI, Convention Centre / Amsterdam, Netherlands, where 1,200+ space pioneers will attend for two ...
SpaceX’s Happy Friday, with launches of 20 Starlink smallsats including 13 Direct to Cell
Launch on Friday, October 18 of Starlink smallsats captured by Satnews from SpaceX's video stream. On Friday, October 18 at 7:13 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 20 Starlink Group 8-19 satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth ...
Scout Space to fly vLEO SDA sensors on taskable spaceplane
Scout Space Inc., a leading in-space observation service provider focused on space security and autonomy solutions, is set to make history with the first demonstration of a novel very low Earth orbit (vLEO) Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capability, aboard a ...
Ecliptic Enterprises awarded ULA contract for RocketCam™ video systems
Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation, a leading provider of onboard video systems for launch platforms, orbital vehicles, and spacecraft, has been awarded a contract to supply United Launch Alliance (ULA) with their RocketCam™ HD video systems for the Vulcan rocket launch platform ...
Astra closes the firm’s take-private transaction
Astra Space, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASTRA) has successfully closed the firm's move to take the company to private ownership. Under the terms of the definitive agreement for the transaction (the “Merger Agreement”) that was previously announced on March 7, 2024, Apogee ...




















