Atlas 5 launch as seen from the KSC Press Site (members only)

Another satellite for China’s Beidou navigation network rocketed into orbit Monday on top of a Long March 3B launcher.

European engineers test-fired the world’s most powerful present-day single-segment solid rocket booster Monday in French Guiana, clearing a major development hurdle for the Vega-C and Ariane 6 launchers set for debuts in 2019 and 2020.

Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches will loft seven high-throughput broadband satellites for SES’s O3b mPower constellation in 2021, SES announced this week.