Overseen by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and US President-elect Donald Trump, the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship combination lifted off at 2200 GMT on 19 November 2024 from its launch site at Boca Chica, near Brownsville, Texas. The flight was again...
Although the second test flight (CERT-2) of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket was successful, it was not without incident. Initially held up by temperature measurements that were out of range, the launch was authorised to go ahead after dawn had...
For the third consecutive month, SpaceX has brought launches of its Falcon 9 rocket to a temporary halt after an anomaly occurred on its latest crewed mission. What happened? Crew-9 was launched aboard a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 at 17:17 (GMT) on 28 September from Cape...
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders this month. NASA is going to fund a Starship Space debris inspection mission launching in late 2026 In a blow for Europe’s (late and expensive) Ariane 6, Eutelsat signs multi-launch agreement for Japan’s...