The Federal Aviation Administration is grounding Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket until the company completes an investigation into the vehicle's April 29 launch failure.
A European reentry capsule notched some important milestones on its first-ever spaceflight last week — and took some photos to commemorate the trip.
Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket suffered an anomaly during its sixth-ever launch today (April 29), resulting in the loss of its payload, a Lockheed Martin technology demonstration.
Six different rockets launched toward orbit during an approximately 17.5-hour stretch, topping by two the previous record for most liftoffs in a 24-hour span.
The U.S. Army launched its new hypersonic missile from Cape Canaveral Space Force station last week, just days after naming it the "Dark Eagle."
SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit tonight (April 28), its second liftoff of the day.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the first big batch of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation to low Earth orbit today (April 28).
The European Space Agency's Biomass forest-monitoring satellite will launch atop a Vega-C rocket early Tuesday morning (April 29), and you can watch the liftoff live.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
A Venus lander launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 has been predicted to fall back to Earth some time in May.
