Liftoff occurred at 5:25 a.m. ET on Thursday (July 9).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched the new model of its Starship rocket on Friday, a day after an initial test was aborted ...

Amazon now has hundreds of flight-ready satellites standing idle in Florida, waiting to join the company’s low-Earth orbit Internet constellation, an Amazon official said Tuesday. “They’re built, and ...

The race to field China’s first reusable launch vehicle is far less predictable than a similar competition that played out in the United States a decade ago. In China, several companies and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first California rocket launch of June is coming up in the week ahead from the Vandenberg Space Force Base. Ready to see ...

Ready for the final rocket launch of May from California? SpaceX is gearing up to get its Falcon 9 rocket off the ground for the sixth and final time of the month from the Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Rocket Lab is preparing for a suborbital hypersonic launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The mission, called "Curveball," will use the HASTE launch vehicle, a modified Electron ...

It was a neat, stable model, with global launch numbers falling to just 55 per year by 2004. Today, the worldwide launch rate has risen to roughly 125 launches annually, with the number exploding in ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base this weekend. The mission will deliver 21 Starlink broadband internet satellites into low-Earth orbit. A nighttime ...

Florida's Space Coast set a new record with 109 orbital rocket launches in 2025. So far in 2026, there have been 39 rocket launches from Florida as of June 8. Upcoming launches for the week include a ...

An analysis of rockets by Vliex and collaborators launched in 2022 revealed that spaceflight depletes the ozone layer and contributes to global warming, with a significant portion of this ozone loss ...

A rocket company is preparing to launch another suborbital hypersonic spaceflight from the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Ready for liftoff? For the first time since February, California-based Rocket Lab ...