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February 26, 2026

Breaking News

[ February 25, 2026 ] SLS rocket hauled back to VAB for repairs Artemis
[ February 25, 2026 ] SpaceX launches 500th Starlink satellite in 2026 during Wednesday Falcon 9 flight Falcon 9
[ February 24, 2026 ] SpaceX’s Tuesday twilight Falcon 9 rocket launch sends 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit Falcon 9
[ February 21, 2026 ] SpaceX’s most-flown Falcon booster launches on record 33rd flight Falcon 9
[ February 21, 2026 ] NASA’s Artemis 2 rocket hit by new problem expected to bump moonshot into early April Artemis

Citizen-funded CubeSat ready to go solar sailing

May 19, 2015 Stephen Clark

A shoebox-sized satellite conceived and funded by members of the Planetary Society, an advocacy organization co-founded by Carl Sagan, is fastened to an Atlas 5 rocket for launch Wednesday to test one of the late celebrity-astronomer’s futuristic concepts for exploring the cosmos.

Photos: Atlas 5 on the pad for X-37B launch

May 19, 2015 Justin Ray

The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket stands poised for flight with the Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane and a batch of CubeSats including the LightSail. The rocket was rolled to Complex 41 on Tuesday in preparation for launch on Wednesday.

Mexico plots way forward after loss of satellite

May 18, 2015 Stephen Clark

The Mexican government says it will collect a $390 million insurance payout after losing an advanced communications satellite Saturday aboard a failed launch of a Russian Proton rocket.

Preview: X-37B spaceplane to journey back into space Wednesday

May 18, 2015 Justin Ray

An experiment-carrying, reusable mini space shuttle operated by the U.S. Air Force will be boosted into Earth orbit Wednesday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.

SpaceX has ‘aggressive’ schedule leading up to crew flights

May 18, 2015 Stephen Clark

Staying true to a corporate philosophy that favors high-visibility flight tests, SpaceX plans to continue wringing out major parts of the company’s human-rated Dragon spaceship in a sequence of dramatic flights leading up to the capsule’s first crewed mission scheduled for 2017.

Photos: X-37B gallery archive

May 18, 2015 Justin Ray

This is a collection of images taken during the three previous flights of the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mini space shuttle.

Videos: Launch and landing archive of X-37B mini space shuttle

May 17, 2015 Justin Ray

Relive the launches and landings of the Air Force’s X-37B miniature space shuttle on Orbital Test Vehicle missions No.1, No. 2 and No. 3.

Proton crash deals another blow to Russian space sector

May 16, 2015 Stephen Clark

Failure struck Russia’s troubled space program for the second time in three weeks Saturday, when a Proton rocket carrying a high-tech satellite for Mexico’s new $1.6 billion space-based communications network crashed shortly after liftoff.

Live coverage: Proton launch runs into trouble

May 15, 2015 Stephen Clark

Russia’s Proton rocket launched from Kazakhstan at 0547 GMT (1:47 a.m. EDT) Saturday with Mexico’s Centenario communications satellite, but the Russian space agency reported an anomaly occurred some time after liftoff.

SpaceX gets certified to launch NASA science missions

May 15, 2015 Stephen Clark

NASA has formally certified SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch all but the space agency’s most costly robotic science missions, beginning with a a U.S.-French oceanography satellite set for liftoff from California in July.