Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission successfully landed on the Moon, making history as the first private spacecraft to achieve this feat, even though it was the second to reach the lunar surface.

Isar Aerospace plans to send off its two-stage-to-orbit Spectrum rocket as the first commercial orbital launch vehicle from ...

The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...

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Commercial Space Conference and Exhibition Photo: courtesy of organizers. The 2025 Commercial Space Conference and Exhibition held its grand opening ceremony on Tuesday in Sh ...

There are no customer satellites aboard the first Spectrum test flight. The rocket will climb into a polar orbit from Andøya ...

A look back at all of the spectacular tests — and failures — that have punctuated SpaceX's development of its Starship rocket ...

China’s commercial space industry is rapidly gaining momentum, with private companies aiming to compete with SpaceX. Backed ...

Beijing is fostering the growth of China’s commercial space industry in a bid to narrow a space-race gap with the U.S.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth after their Crew 9 Dragon Spacecraft splashdown ...

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If Mars becomes a human colony is anyone’s guess. Musk said 2016 that it would take 40 to 100 years to have a self-sustaining civilization on the planet. While Mars is quite barren, dusty, and chilly, ...