The award marks one of the Pentagon's largest-ever investments in hypersonic testing infrastructure

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2024
SpaceX on Monday launched a Falcon 9 rocket with its first Starlink mission of the new year, sending 24 satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida. The rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the afternoon. Officials with SpaceX said the flight was the 17th one for the first-stage booster supporting the mission. It previously launch

London (AFP) Jan 2, 2025
A top-secret lab in the UK is developing the country's first quantum clock to help the British military boost intelligence and reconnaissance operations, the defence ministry said Thursday. The clock is so precise that it will lose less than one second over billions of years, "allowing scientists to measure time at an unprecedented scale," the ministry said in a statement. "The trialling

Cape Canaveral (AFP) Jan 6, 2025
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first orbital rocket next week, marking a pivotal moment in the commercial space race currently dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Named New Glenn, the rocket is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as soon as Wednesday 1:00 am (0600 GMT), with a backup window on Friday, according to a F

NASA experts argue that lunar missions are essential before attempting any human expeditions to the Red Planet.

In this episode of Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow speaks with James Parker, Founding Partner, Leonid Capital Partners.

NASA will spend the next year and a half studying two different approaches for returning samples from Mars.

Anduril entered the solid rocket motor market in 2023 following its acquisition of Adranos