Launches & Spacecraft

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket aims to become the first vehicle ever to reach orbit from European soil. The company tried to launch on Wednesday (March 25) but scrubbed the attempt.

A gorgeous new photo shows the northern lights rippling across the night sky above Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket.

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Rocket Lab had planned to launch the first two satellites for Europe's Celeste navigation constellation early Wednesday morning (March 25), but Mother Nature didn't cooperate.

Russia's Progress 94 cargo spacecraft did not deploy one of its docking antennas as planned after launching toward the ISS on Sunday (March 22), complicating plans for its arrival.

The U.S. Space Force has swapped rockets for an upcoming GPS satellite launch, moving to a SpaceX Falcon 9 while the investigation into an anomaly with ULA's Vulcan Centaur continues.

Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective to orbit on Friday (March 20).

Rocket Lab has inked a $190 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense for 20 launches of the company's suborbital HASTE rocket.

NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16.

SpaceX conducted a static fire test with the first stage of its V3 Starship on Monday (March 16), a milestone moment for this bigger, more powerful megarocket variant.