Ceres-1 rocket launches 8 Chinese commercial satellites Chinese commercial launch company Galactic Energy successfully sent eight satellites into orbit early Monday with its light-lift Ceres-1 rocket.

Space agencies from around the world launched a total of 244 successful missions into orbit or space in 2024, which is the most in history. The US led the way with over half of those launches.

The astronauts have been on the ISS since June due to problems with Starliner. SpaceX said that the hydraulic system issue that postponed the Starliner mission on Wednesday has now been fixed and ...

This photo shows the No 1 launch pad of Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in Wenchang, South China's Hainan province, March 11, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] In late November, the space complex ...

NASA's newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

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 ...

A Long March-8 Y6 carrier rocket carrying 18 low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in Wenchang, south China's Hainan Province, March 12, 2025.

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 ...

XI'AN -- A Chinese research team announced Monday that a space thruster has achieved full-power operation. The 100 kW high-thrust magnetoplasmadynamic thruster they tested is poised to pave the ...

The latest billionaire to signal his interest in the space travel industry is former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The wealthy tech magnate has joined a relatively under-the-radar rocket startup ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is taking over as the CEO of Relativity Space, a 9-year-old rocket startup, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch. This is Schmidt’s first ...

NASA's SpaceX crew is preparing to launch Wednesday to the International Space Station, where their Dragon capsule will provide a ride home for a pair of astronauts whose homecoming after an ...