Virgin Orbit attempted to carry out the first satellite launch from the United Kingdom on Monday with the first LauncherOne mission out of Spaceport Cornwall. LauncherOne was dropped from Virgin’s Cosmic Girl carrier aircraft off the coast of Ireland at approximately 23:11 UTC, and flight appeared nominal through stage 2 ignition and fairing separation, although updates from Virgin Orbit during the flight were intermittent.
Northrop Grumman’s air-launched Pegasus XL rocket made a low-profile launch for the US Space Force…
In December 2020, Astra launched Rocket 3.2 to space. The successor, Rocket 3.3, will make…
Northrop Grumman has launched NASA’s ICON mission aboard its Pegasus XL rocket on Thursday following…
NASA’s award to SpaceX for the launch contract for their future X-ray telescope, the Imaging…
Four months after standing down launch operations of the ICON mission on their Pegasus rocket,…
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Orbital ATK’s Taurus-XL rocket – now renamed Minotaur-C – returned to flight on Tuesday with…
SpaceX has launched its Falcon 9 rocket early on Monday, carrying the CRS-9 Dragon spacecraft…
SpaceX is deep into an internal mishap investigation following the loss during First Stage flight of…
In an era of new launch system development, Orbital ATK’s Pegasus has shown her staying…
SpaceX has conducted its second mission for China’s Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Sunday, with a…
Making their fourth orbital launch of the year, the SpaceX team have conducted another Falcon…
A National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) military payload rode into orbit atop the United Launch Alliance…
Orbital Sciences Corporation launched their Pegasus-XL rocket Thursday night, carrying NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph…
SpaceX conducted its tenth launch on Friday, sending the fourth Dragon spacecraft on a mission…
Virgin Galactic unveiled their new air launch system – called LauncherOne – this week, classing…
Orbital Sciences Corporation have launched NASA’s NuSTAR spacecraft Thursday. The spacecraft was deployed by a…
It was an interesting year for NASA as the 2011 calendar brought about the retirement…
