The world’s first privately-funded and operated lunar lander, an entrant in the defunct Google Lunar X-Prize competition, suffered a failure during a landing on the lunar surface. The Beresheet lander (“in the beginning” in Hebrew, so named after an Israel-wide naming competition) was designed and built by SpaceIL from 2011 onwards for the Lunar X-Prize competition, and the project continued when the Lunar X-Prize was ended in 2018 without a winner, or even without an entry flying into space.
The second orbital launch attempt for a private Chinese company has failed. OneSpace Tech’s OS-M…
Chinese private company LandSpace launched the solid-fuelled Zhuque-1 orbital launch vehicle on its maiden flight…
The Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, launched their Soyuz MS-10 crew vehicle with two new…
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the first West Coast return-to-launch-site mission Sunday. The launch,…
As NASA continues to analyze and refine the profile for the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) test…
International Launch Services (ILS) is upping the pace of its Proton-M launches with another mission…
International Launch Services (ILS) launched its Proton-M launch vehicle with the Amazonas 5 satellite on…
International Launch Services (ILS) returned to action early on Thursday (local time) with the long-awaited…
For the first time on the West Coast, a recovered Falcon 9 first stage has…
Japan conducted an experimental launch, using a modified SS-520 sounding rocket to place a CubeSat,…
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched the Progress MS-04/65P resupply mission to the ISS…
International Launch Services (ILS) is continuing to plan out its future manifest by announcing two…
China has unofficially suffered its first failure of the year during the attempt to launch…
International Launch Services (ILS) has launched its Proton M rocket on Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket made its twenty-fifth flight – and its second of the month…
Orbital ATK has unveiled preliminary plans to place a four-person habitat in cislunar space by…
Fresh from its unique three engine landing success, the Falcon 9 first stage (F9-0024-S1) has…
The Falcon 9 first stage that successfully landed on the deck of the Autonomous Spaceport Drone…
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft returned to flight Friday with the CRS-8 resupply mission to the International…