Just under three weeks after Rocket Lab launched the “Rocket Like a Hurricane” mission placing two time-resolved observations of precipitation structure and storm intensity with a constellation of smallsats (TROPICS) satellites for NASA into low Earth orbit, the company launched its Electron rocket on the “Coming to a Storm Near You” mission on Friday.
Launching from Launch Complex 1B (LC-1B) on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand, this placed the final batch of TROPICS satellites into orbit.
As SpaceX resumed Falcon launches after Starship’s exhilarating first orbital flight test last week, the…
SpaceX has launched its 23rd mission of 2023 with the company’s Falcon 9 rocket lofting…
Relativity Space conducted the first flight of its Terran 1 rocket Wednesday. The Good Luck,…
As the two-year landing anniversary of NASA’s Perseverance rover and its small scouting helicopter Ingenuity draws near, the pair…
SpaceX and its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket have launched the second of three OneWeb missions…
With Booster 7 returned to the Mega Bay (High Bay 2) at Starbase, all eyes…
After living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for close to six months,…
After successfully landing on Mars on August 6, 2012 (UTC), Curiosity continues to unlock the…
Just over three weeks after Russia launched the Kosmos 2555 spacecraft for the Russian military…
After announcing plans to recover and reuse the first stage of the company’s Electron rocket…
After years of development, suborbital space tourism looks ready to lift off after Virgin Galactic…
As SpaceX continues its push towards a new record number of launches in a single…
As the second SpaceX launch of the year, and the first of many Starlink missions…
After planning began in 2016 for a small, multi-user launch pad at Kennedy Space Center…
