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Dream Chaser has a new ride SNCs Dream Chaser. Image: NASA / SNC Private space company Sierra Nevada Corporation announced today that its mini-spaceplane, the Dream Chaser, will launch into orbit on top of the United Launch Alliances future Vulcan Centaur …

SpaceX's Starhopper will make its biggest-ever leap soon, if all goes according to plan. The private spaceflight company aims to get Starhopper, an early test prototype of the company's Mars-colonizing Starship vehicle , about 650 feet (200 meters) off the …

NASA released images of a training event for astronauts who will be aboard next year’s SpaceX Crew Dragonand they offer a glimpse at sleek new spacesuits. While similar to those we’re accustomed to seeing, these new iterations are undeniably more refined. Act…

SpaceX late last month successfully completed the first in a series of tests on its latest suborbital Starhopper prototype. The experiment, which required the vehicle to rise untethered from the launch platform to a height of 20 meters (65 feet) was conduct…

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese startup LinkSpace on Saturday completed its third test of a reusable rocket in five months, stepping up the pace in China's race to develop a technology key to cheap space launches in an expected global boom in satellite deployment…

Enlarge/ In May, 2018, Vector launched a full-scale prototype of the Vector-R rocket on a short flight. 0 with 0 posters participating Vector, a micro-launch company founded in 2016 to build small rockets for payloads of up to 60kg, may be in financial trou…

On Tuesday, 6 August, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. After the successful launch, Elon Musk tweeted a video that got even more social media attention than the launch itself. The video shows a SpaceX ship catching the rocket’s fairing a…

The United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint-effort commercial launch service provider set up by Boing and Lockheed Martin, succeeded in launching a U.S. Air Force communications satellite to orbit today, the fifth in a series of launches to form a constellation…

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Spacecom's AMOS-17 communications satellite at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida,Tuesday, August 6. The mission comes nearly three years after a launch pad explosion destroyed a different Israeli communica…

An animation of how Rocket Lab’s recovery process will work | Image: Rocket Lab Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab is following in the footsteps of rocket behemoth SpaceX with plans to make its rockets reusable. But Rocket Lab won’t be landing its vehicles i…