Rocket Lab successfully launched a Gen-3 Earth-observing satellite for Virginia-based BlackSky on June 2, marking another ...

Former NASA aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe always dreamed of going to space. She never imagined realizing that dream would let ...

The U.S. Space Force has added Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space and California-based Rocket Lab USA to the list of providers for its $5.6 billion round of national security launches. Each company ...

Two emerging rocketmakers have received a key greenlight on their road to competing for Space Force satellite launches. Service officials announced Thursday that Rocket Lab and Stoke Space ...

Rocket Lab's Electron rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 2 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Virginia. (Brady Kenniston) The Space Force has added two new ...

A year later, SolAero Holdings was added giving Rocket Lab Space Systems in-house manufacturing of solar cells. Besides acquisitions for manufacturing and design capabilities, the company also ...

the thrill of the unknown in pitch-black darkness. Strapped into a retro rocket ship, you blast through space for 2 1/2 minutes with no idea when the next drop or sharp turn is coming. You never ...

One of China’s Long March 6A rockets has broken apart in low-Earth orbit and created a debris cloud consisting of hundreds of pieces, according to multiple space debris-tracking entities.

For those of us that aren't rocket scientists, those numbers are good. Really good. Especially when in the vacuum of space. Specific Impulse is a measurement of "oomph" (not a scientific term ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ... black hole fills our view, the light from the matter surrounding it becomes more intense. Closer to our destination, the very view of the ...

A group of students aims to become the first non-government, non-commercial team to launch a reusable rocket to space. Their Aurora rocket, set to launch from California this month, is designed to ...

By Oliver Whang Terran 1, a rocket designed and built by the company Relativity Space, suffered a failure shortly after lifting off from a launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., late on Wednesday night.