Virgin Galactic – part of the Virgin corporation headed by Sir Richard Branson – has unveiled their new LauncherOne system’s dedicated aircraft at the company’s facility in San Antonio, Texas. The aircraft, a former Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 series passenger carrier, is slated to begin service to Virgin Galactic in late 2017 with the first of three test flights.
Due to customer demand, Virgin Galactic claims it has nearly doubled the amount of payload…
One pilot has died and another seriously injured during a test flight failure of Virgin…
Space Shuttle veteran Frederick “CJ” Sturckow has joined Virgin Galactic’s commercial flight team. The retired…
More details about Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipTwo – VSS Enterprise – have been revealed to the…
British billionaire tycoon Sir Richard Branson has stated that his space travel company, Virgin Galactic,…
Firefly Aerospace is returning its Alpha launch vehicle to flight after a nearly 10-month stand…
Seven missions are on this week’s launch manifest, with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 dominating the schedule.…
Northrop Grumman has successfully tested the Bombardment Attack Missile Motor 29! 2.0, also known as…
Rocket Lab’s innovative “Hungry Hippo” fairings for the Neutron rocket have arrived at Wallops Island,…
Rocket Lab had its most successful year to date in 2025, with its Electron rocket…
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC), one of the largest space and defense contractors in the United…
Global launch activity is set to surge over the next week, with 13 missions scheduled…
Firefly Aerospace has pinpointed a minor hydrocarbon contamination as the root cause of a combustion…
This week’s launch schedule featured two high-profile launches that were pushed back after scrubs from…
With NASA set to decommission the International Space Station (ISS) in 2030, Vast is racing…
Rocket Lab’s ambitious push to launch its Neutron medium-lift rocket before the end of the…
SpaceX is scheduled to launch up to three times this week, with each mission planned…
A busy slate of launches was planned for the last full week of September, including…
Rocket Lab has inaugurated Launch Complex 3 (LC-3) for its Neutron rocket, which is set…
