Firefly Aerospace is officially back in the game after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration gave the company the all-clear on August 26 to resume launches. This ended a mandatory stand-down that ...

With the likes of SpaceX rattling off rocket launches seemingly every other day, you could be forgiven for thinking that sending massive vehicles to space had become as easy as baking a cake. But as ...

Rockets are hard,” Elon Musk once said but when a 400-foot rocket disintegrates over busy commercial airspace, the consequences go a great deal further than that. The mid-air explosion of SpaceX’s ...

A surge in global space launches in 2025 also brought a spike in failures, from SpaceX and Japan’s H3 to private rockets in ...

China opened its space sector to private investment in 2014, which led to the formation of several launch startups. More ...

The H3 rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 8:51 p.m. EST Sunday night in Japan carrying the Michibiki 5 navigation satellite designated QZS-5 into orbit.

A private Chinese rocket just suffered its second-ever failure. Galactic Energy's solid-fuel Ceres-1 rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:02 p.m. EST on ...

Rocket builder Astra's stock fell sharply Monday after the company's launch attempt over the weekend failed following a problem at liftoff. The company's LV0006 rocket tilted and slide sideways a ...