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India ready to debut solid-fueled smallsat launcher
India's space agency will debut a new Small Satellite Launch Vehicle Saturday, adding a fourth member to the company's rocket fleet. The SSLV's test flight will take off from Sriharikota Island on India's east coast with a small Earth observation satellite and a CubeSat from an Indian startup focused on science education.
Korean moon mission blasts off from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX rocket
South Korea's first moon orbiter launched Thursday from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, heading off on a mission to survey potential lunar landing sites and search for water ice hidden inside shadowed craters near the moon's poles.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Korean moon mission
South Korea's first mission to the moon lifted off at 7:08 p.m. EDT (2308 GMT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The launch was the second of the day from Florida's Space Coast, marking the shortest turnaround between launches at Cape Canaveral since 1967.
ULA launches U.S. Space Force’s last SBIRS missile warning satellite
The departure at dawn of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Thursday sent aloft the U.S. military's last Space Based Infrared System missile warning satellite, a $1.2 billion mission billed by the Space Force as a stepping stone to a new generation of more sensitive sentinels in the sky.
Blue Origin launches six more passengers to suborbital space
Blue Origin launched six more people on a quick, 10-minute flight to suborbital space Thursday from West Texas. A popular YouTuber and the first people from Egyptian and Portugal to fly above the internationally-recognized boundary of space were among the commercial passengers.
Rocket Lab launches top secret payload for U.S. spy satellite agency
Rocket Lab launched its third mission in a little more than five weeks Thursday in New Zealand, deploying a small classified payload in orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office and continuing the busiest stretch of missions in the company's history.
VideoLive coverage: Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral at dawn
United Launch Alliance's fifth mission of the year lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 6:29 a.m. EDT (1029 GMT) Thursday. An Atlas 5 rocket launched on a $1.2 billion mission with a U.S. Space Force missile warning satellite.
Cape Canaveral on the cusp of new records amid blistering launch rate
With two rockets from industry rivals United Launch Alliance and SpaceX ready for liftoff just 12 hours apart Thursday, the Cape Canaveral spaceport is poised to surpass the record for most missions in a year to fly into orbit from its launch pads. The launch day doubleheader would also mark the shortest span between two space launches from Florida's Space Coast since 1967.
Final SBIRS missile warning satellite ready for launch
The last in a line of six satellites for the U.S. military's Space Based Infrared System, or SBIRS, missile warning program is ready for launch Thursday from Cape Canaveral on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.
ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket moved to launch pad with U.S. military missile warning satellite
United Launch Alliance's next Atlas 5 rocket rolled out to its launch pad Tuesday at Cape Canaveral for a fiery blastoff at dawn Thursday with a U.S. military missile warning satellite.