The spacecraft, designated PH-1, carried out its maiden suborbital flight in Northwest China, according to its developer, CAS ...

A look at how the space race evolved in 2025, key missions that slipped, and why 2026 is looking to be a banner year for ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Impulse Space, the in-space mobility leader, today revealed details of the upgraded version of Mira: the company’s high-thrust, highly maneuverable spacecraft ...

In general, solar PV deposited on glass is significantly more efficient than thin film, but this is the price you pay for off-world deployments. Paul Warley, CEO of Colorado-based Ascent Solar, told ...

SpaceX closed 2025 with 165 Falcon 9 flights, a record. Credit: SpaceX CAPE CANAVERAL—The number of orbital launch attempts worldwide last year surpassed the record 2024 flight rate by 25%, with ...

There's truly nothing else like a space shuttle launch. Watching a massive space-faring vessel make its way beyond Earth's atmosphere into the embrace of outer space, in many cases carrying a crew of ...

Space Aircraft Carrier? Key Points and Summary - SpaceWERX has tapped Seattle startup Gravitics to develop an “orbital carrier”—a pre-positioned, in-space launch pad that can rapidly deploy small ...

Elon Musk's commercial space flight company SpaceX delayed the launch of key space vehicles that would aid military communication as part of the U.S. Space Force's Proliferated Warfighter Space ...

After more than a decade of development and testing, US military officials are finally ready to entrust United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket to haul a batch of national security satellites into ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to develop a new monolithic telescope for a responsive space mission ...

The stratosphere is no longer empty. High-altitude platform and suborbital spaceplane operations are booming, yet our management of “near-space” remains stuck in the last century. We cannot afford to ...