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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida
Feb 21, 2025 (UPI)
At 10:19 a.m. EST, the Falcon 9 lifted the satellites, including 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities to low-Earth orbit from pad 40. It was the 21st flight for ...
PLD Space expands global launch network with new Oman spaceport
Feb 21, 2025 (SPX)
The company is also planning to establish a third spaceport in the near future to support growing operational needs and ensure the execution of the MIURA 5 laun...
Musk in X spat with Danish astronaut over 'abandoned' ISS crew
Feb 20, 2025 (AFP)
Andreas "Andy" Mogensen had shared on X a Fox News clip featuring Musk and his boss, US President Donald Trump, where Musk claimed NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni...
SpaceX debris enters atmosphere over Poland: agency
Feb 19, 2025 (AFP)
A 1.5 metre by one metre (five feet by three feet) chunk from an unidentified object was found Wednesday morning in the grounds of a warehouse on the outskirts ...
SpaceX to attempt landing booster off coast of Bahamas for first time
Feb 18, 2025 (UPI)
The next SpaceX Starlink flight is scheduled for 6 p.m. EST on Tuesday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The mission will place a new round of 23 Sta...
Sierra Space Successfully Concludes Testing of VR35K-A Upper Stage Engine
Feb 16, 2025 (SPX)
The company has also secured a $16 million firm-fixed-price contract from AFRL to further advance its upper stage engine technology for National Security Space ...
Long March 8A Rocket Successfully Completes Maiden Flight
Feb 16, 2025 (SPX)
The rocket lifted off at 5:30 p.m. from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan province, delivering the second batch of low-orbit satellites for China's State...
SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 booster launches 21 Starlink satellites from Florida
Feb 15, 2025 (UPI)
Liftoff was at 1:14 a.m. from pad 40 with clouds obscuring the rocket. It was the 27th time this first-stage booster was used. It landed eight later at SpaceX d...
Rocket Lab Delivers Third Pioneer Spacecraft for Varda Space Industries
Feb 13, 2025 (SPX)
The newly delivered spacecraft, designated W-3, will be instrumental in Varda's next orbital manufacturing and hypersonic reentry mission. Earlier this month, W...
Bezos's Blue Origin rocket firm to cut 10% of workforce
Feb 13, 2025 (AFP)
"We grew and hired incredibly fast in the last few years," CEO Dave Limp wrote in an email -- a copy of which was obtained by AFP -- explaining the company's "t...
Chinese developer delivers Liqing-2 rocket engine
Feb 12, 2025 (SPX)
The Liqing-2, a first-stage engine for the Lijian series rockets, features a 110-tonne thrust capacity utilizing pin injection technology in both its gas genera...
Sidus Space Announces LizzieSat-3 Ready for Launch
Feb 12, 2025 (SPX)
The deployment of LizzieSat-3 marks another milestone in Sidus Space's ambitious expansion of its satellite constellation, making it the third satellite launch ...
BlackSky and Rocket Lab Set Launch Date for First Gen-3 Satellite
Feb 12, 2025 (SPX)
"This launch represents a major inflection point for our global defense and intelligence customer base as BlackSky introduces very high-resolution Gen-3 capabil...
NASA Awards SpaceX Launch Contract for Pandora Mission
Feb 12, 2025 (SPX)
The selection falls under NASA's Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract. This agreement allows the agency to issue...
NASA chooses SpaceX launch site in Texas for Pandora mission launch
Feb 11, 2025 (UPI)
NASA officials on Monday announced SpaceX and its Starbase launch facility is the space agency's choice to launch the Pandora satellite mission on a date that i...
Reusable Rocket Development Advances in China
Feb 10, 2025 (SPX)
Meng Xianbo, chief strategy officer at Beijing-based Galactic Energy, emphasized that these market forces are catalyzing continuous innovation in reusable launc...
Rocket Lab launches 5th satellite batch for Kineis IoT constellation
Feb 09, 2025 (SPX)
The mission, designated "IOT 4 You and Me," launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand at 9:43 AM NZDT on 9 February (20:43 UTC), placing t...
SpaceX launches 21 more Starlink satellites from Florida
Feb 08, 2025 (UPI)
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 30 at 2:18 p.m. Following stage separation, the first stage landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, which is st...
Putin sacks space agency chief after setbacks
Feb 06, 2025 (AFP)
Yuri Borisov had been in the role since July 2022, presiding over the crash landing of the Luna-25 probe in August 2023, Moscow's first lunar lander mission in ...
KAIST develops AI-driven performance prediction model to advance space electric propulsion technology
Feb 05, 2025 (SPX)
Plasma, the fourth state of matter, is created when gases are energized to a state where they separate into charged ions and electrons. This technology is widel...
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