Blue Origin plans to launch the debut mission of its powerful New Glenn rocket early Friday morning (Jan. 10), and you can watch the action live. New Glenn is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday during a three-hour window that opens at 1 a.m. EST...

SpaceX’s Starship will fly for the seventh time ever early next week, if all goes according to plan. SpaceX announced today (Jan. 8) that it’s targeting Monday (Jan. 13) for Flight 7 of Starship, the 400-foot-tall (122 meters), fully reusable megarocket designed to help humanity settle...

An approaching wildfire has forced the closure of NASA’s lead center for robotic planetary exploration. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which lies at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains just north of Los Angeles, has been temporarily shuttered due to the Eaton fire, which is raging...

SpaceX and NASA are now targeting mid-January for the launch of the private moon lander “Blue Ghost.” Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is now scheduled to launch to the moon at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) on Wednesday, Jan. 15, taking off from Launch Complex 39A at...

Kenya’s Communications Authority has proposed significantly raising licence costs for satellite internet service providers (ISPs) like Starlink. Under the new proposal, a 15-year operating licence would jump from USD 12,302 (KSH 1,579,614) to USD 115,331 (KSH 14,808,846), marking nearly a 1,000%...

India postponed its first attempt to dock two spaceraft in Earth orbit to allow more time for tests as the country prepares for what will be a vital technology tests for its future ambitions in space. The Indian Space Research Organisation‘s (ISRO) Space Docking Experiment, or SpaDeX, was...

SpaceX launched the first batch of its internet satellites this year from Florida’s Space Coast today (Jan. 6). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of the company’s Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 3:43 p.m EDT (2043 GMT). The Falcon 9’s...

After a successful engine burn test in October, Maine-based bluShift Aerospace is planning for its next big milestone: a suborbital flight test toward the end of 2025. The rocket company, located at Brunswick Landing in southern Maine, was founded over a decade ago. In January of 2021, the company...

SpaceX is ready for the next Starship flight test, aiming to make strides toward full reusability of the launch system at the start of what promises to be a massive year for the launcher. Launch from Starbase Orbital Launch Pad A in South Texas is currently scheduled for 5:00 p.m. Eastern (2200 GMT)...