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ULA wants you to help pick name of new rocket
Eagle? Freedom? GalaxyOne? United Launch Alliance wants public input in the naming of a next-generation launcher designed to replace the historic Atlas and Delta rocket lines in the 2020s.
Arianespace to launch satellites for Earth imaging, data relay
Arianespace announced four launch orders this week to deploy spacecraft in orbit for Google, the United Arab Emirates and Europe's new laser data relay satellite network.
SpaceX swaps order of next two Falcon 9 launches
Confronted with pesky problems in the Falcon 9 rocket's helium pressurization system, SpaceX has shuffled the order of the next two launches, choosing to go ahead with the liftoff of a Dragon supply ship on a cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station around April 10.
Sierra Nevada proposes all-in-one solution for ISS resupply
Leveraging progress made to build a human-rated space plane for NASA's commercial crew program, Sierra Nevada Corp. said this week it has offered a cargo-carrying version of the Dream Chaser spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station beginning in 2018.
Proton rocket launches with Russian telecom satellite
A Proton rocket and Breeze M upper stage deployed a Russian communications satellite in orbit Thursday after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Delta 4-Heavy selected for launch of solar probe
A NASA spacecraft that will fly closer to the sun than any mission before will launch on a Delta 4-Heavy rocket in 2018, requiring a boost from the largest active launcher in the U.S. inventory and repeated flybys around Venus to reach an operating post inside the solar atmosphere.
SpaceX puts off next Falcon 9 launch
SpaceX's next launch with a European-built communications satellite has been delayed to no earlier than March 28 to study a problem with a helium pressurization system on the Falcon 9 rocket, officials said Tuesday.
Innovative satellites begin maneuvers with all-electric thrusters
Two ion-driven communications satellites launched from Cape Canaveral on March 1 have begun novel maneuvers using electric propulsion to reach operating posts 22,300 miles over the equator.
Lockheed Martin throws its hat into ISS cargo competition
Lockheed Martin has proposed a semi-reusable resupply platform to send up cargo to the International Space Station beginning in 2018, adding another competitor to a crowded list of companies bidding to win multibillion-dollar contracts from NASA.
More views of Thursday night’s Atlas 5 launch
Spaceflight Now's readers sent in photos from Thursday night's launch of four NASA satellites aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, marking a fiery start to a mission probing the fundamental workings of the magnetic bubble shielding Earth from cosmic radiation.