NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft has gone through a critical step in its preparation for launch. Three spacecraft adapter ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency Judge blocks President Trump from using 1798 Alien ...

today announced the successful launch of its third orbital processing and reentry capsule, W-3, just 15 days after the reentry of the company's second mission, which landed in Australia on Feb. 27, ...

The new mission is underway on orbit just 15 days after the successful re-entry and landing of Varda’s W-2 mission, which was also powered by Rocket Lab’s Pioneer Spacecraft. Rocket Lab’s ...

Rocket Lab's Pioneer spacecraft for Varda Space Industries' W-3 mission integrated onto Transporter-13 at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Credit: SpaceX LONG BEACH, Calif., March 15, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE ...

The plan involves sending a spacecraft to rendezvous with a dangerous asteroid and use its tiny gravitational field to slightly alter the space rock’s trajectory so that, over time, it would ...

Watch as the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft travels to the moon in this epic time-lapse from flight day 1. Credit: NASA | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: From A Rooftop by Lotus ...

Once in lunar orbit, Gateway will continue scientific observations while awaiting the arrival of Artemis IV astronauts aboard an Orion spacecraft which will deliver and dock Gateway’s second ...

Varda Space Industries' W-2 space capsule reentered Earth's atmosphere and touched down in the Australian outback last month, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to land Down Under.

“Every day we are pushing, and not only days, we’re pushing hours and minutes,” said Lockheed Martin’s Kirk Shireman, head of its Orion spacecraft ... during the Artemis I reentry, missing ...