The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and anti-satellite (ASAT) warfare.

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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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SpaceX announced a Falcon 9 launch of the NROL-57 mission on Thursday, March 20 at 11:49 p.m. from Vandenberg Space ...

U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds ...