Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight.

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...

A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four astronauts is on a pioneering journey circling Earth over its poles after launching Monday ...

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South ...

Plenty more launches are to come, including another test of SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket, which exploded while in flight ...

The private Fram2 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

Those south of Cape Canaveral, be sure to look up. SpaceX is launching the Fram2 crew into polar orbit, and it will fly straight south.

The four-person crew, led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, will spend three to five days on a rare flight path around ...

A crew of four international spacefarers on a private mission will soon seek to become the first humans to travel over ...

The anomaly, which occurred during a Space Force certification flight, was traced to a manufacturing defect in a solid rocket motor nozzle. Despite the setback, ULA has a backlog of missions and a ...

The duo launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March 12 GMT). There was a glimmer in the air tonight at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and it wasn't only because ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Relativity Space managed a single launch of its Terran 1 ...