Browsing: Spaceflight & Orbital

WASHINGTON — Intuitive Machines has agreed to purchase a company that operates ground stations in the United States and United Kingdom to help build out a…

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WASHINGTON — NASA plans to fly the Space Launch System on Artemis 3 without an upper stage as the agency begins to define revised plans for…

NASA’s Orion space capsule training simulator is located inside Building 9 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. It’s a full-scale, high-fidelity model of the real…

TAMPA, Fla. — SES has canceled two satellites Intelsat ordered before being acquired by the Luxembourg-based multi-orbit operator, joining France’s Eutelsat in pulling back from geostationary…

SpaceX’s first Starship V3 rocket stands at Launch Pad 2 prior to a fueling demonstration on Monday, May 11, 2026. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is now targeting…

SpaceX’s advanced new Starship megarocket will fly for the first time a week from today, if all goes to plan.SpaceX is targeting May 19 for the…

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a national missile defense system broadly aligned with President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome executive order could cost roughly…

A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft, tail number C209, is seen atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force…

It’s only been a month since NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to wrap up their 10-mission around the moon, and the…