Jul 19, 2024 · SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets currently carry satellites to orbit, as does Firefly Aerospace's Alpha, Rocket Lab's Electron, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, Arianespace's...

Feb 3, 2025 · This breakthrough is a crucial step toward future space station operations and autonomous satellite servicing. SpaceX’s Starship Test Flight: SpaceX conducted its seventh test flight of Starship, continuing its push toward a fully reusable deep-space vehicle. While the test ended with an explosion, SpaceX noted that this was a substantially ...

Mar 14, 2023 · These upcoming rockets provide a promising glimpse of what we can expect during the next era of spaceflight. 2022 was witness to 186 launch attempts, of which 180 successfully reached orbit. It...

Jan 4, 2025 · 2025 could be a watershed in space exploration – from the first steps towards a sustainable human presence on the Moon to the emergence of new launch vehicles and the expansion of commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit. We will look at the most interesting missions and technological innovations that will shape the future of space ...

Jan 1, 2025 · Our species called this latest 366-day journey around the sun “2024” and packed into it a ton of astronomical and spaceflight excitement. A solar eclipse crossed North America. Two robotic landers...

5 days ago · A small step toward a fully reusable European rocket. The French space agency CNES has issued a call for proposals to develop a ... A future call will deal with the design and fabrication of a ...

Mar 5, 2024 · CASC is known to be developing a new, 5.0m-diameter crew launch vehicle, known as the Long March 10. A single stick version would be used to launch a new-generation crew spacecraft to low Earth...

NASA stands on the verge of commercializing low-Earth orbit. These experiences and partnerships will enable NASA to go back to the Moon in 2024 – this time to stay. NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration is the biggest rocket ever built, the Space Launch System (SLS), the Orion spacecraft and the Gateway lunar command module.

1 day ago · For these reasons, rockets have intermittently lifted off from sea for nearly 60 years, beginning with Italy's Luigi Broglio Malindi Space Center, a retrofitted oil rig off the coast of Kenya that ...

Dec 31, 2024 · SpaceX's Starship megarocket may come into its own in 2025. The 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket system ever built, and it's designed to be fully and...