The European Space Agency has signed the first contracts under its European Launcher Challenge, committing €543.6 million to three European rocket startups as it tries to broaden the continent’s ...

LandSpace achieved a major milestone for Chinese commercial rocketry this week when the first stage of its Zhuque-3 successfully soft-landed on a recovery pad in the Gobi Desert following its second ...

While Ship 40 is preparing to be transported back to Starbase from Christmas Island, Ship 41 has completed both of its static fires and will soon roll back to Mega Bay 2 for final flight preps.

Future Booster production is also advancing. Booster 22, currently assigned to Flight 15, sits fully stacked inside Mega Bay 1 after completing stacking last week. Based on the pattern of previous ...

Zhuque-3’s second flight marked a major milestone for LandSpace as the methalox rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on August 18 and successfully soft-landed its first stage ...

After last week’s Chang Zheng 7A launch failure, China returns to action with the high-profile Chang’e 7 robotic lunar mission and the second test flight of the ZhuQue-3 partially reusable launcher.

SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, continues to evolve as the company pushes the boundaries of rocket development with its Starship program. Following the operational experience gained ...

NASA management updated the agency’s human exploration plans for the 2020s to the NASA Advisory Council’s (NAC) Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Committee last month at the Ames Research Center ...

Manufacturing and assembly development work for the Space Launch System (SLS) Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) is starting to ramp up at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans. NASA’s SLS ...

NASA and Blue Origin have finalized plans to hot-fire test the second stage of the New Glenn rocket on the B-2 position of the Thad Cochran Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. An annex ...

Starship Flight 12 took another step toward launch, with Booster 19 completing an initial test campaign on the newly commissioned Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas. Culminating in a short Static Fire test, the ...