SpaceX Falcon Heavy

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission spacecraft has been outfitted with all nine of the instruments needed to study the potential habitability of Europa.

The Dragon Freedom capsule made contact with the orbital lab's U.S. segment Harmony module at 5:42 a.m. EST, initiating a 15-min. docking sequence.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket kicked off the planned 14-day Axiom-3 (Ax-3) mission with launch at 4:49 p.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.

A record 223 orbital-class rockets lifted off last year, a 20% hike over 2022.

Led by SpaceX, the number of orbital launch attempts last year rose by 20% over 2022.

The triple-core booster lifted off with the X-37B from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A at 8:07 p.m. EST.

Major technical risks were retired by the performance of SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket.

The mission, known as USSF-52, will be the seventh for the two-vehicle fleet of Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicles.

Scientists suspect a metal asteroid the mission will explore may be the remnant of early planet.

After a year’s delay to resolve software issues, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is poised to explore a namesake asteroid.

NASA says a $1.2 billion mission to learn more about the metal-rich asteroid Psyche is on track for launch on Oct. 5 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Intuitive Machines is aiming for a Nov. 15 launch of the agency initiative’s first Artemis-era Moon landing.

SpaceX and NASA are meeting to discuss options for Artemis III’s return to the lunar surface.

Intuitive Machines has completed a test run of its Nova-C lunar lander at its facilities in Houston.

The performance of Viasat’s ViaSat-3 Americas satellite may be impacted by an unexpected event.

NASA is progressing toward an October launch of Psyche, an approximately $1 billion science mission to orbit a metal-rich, main-belt asteroid.

NASA has terminated efforts to place its small, propulsively challenged Lunar Flashlight mission spacecraft into a backup orbit around the Earth.