The company now plans to extend into on-orbit servicing and refueling missions, end-of-mission disposal, and cross-orbit ...

Welcome to Edition 7.36 of the Rocket Report! Well, after nine months, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are ...

The booster put the satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit, but it was the spacecraft’s own onboard propulsion systems that were responsible for carrying it the rest of the way.

SpaceX has launched the next-generation Spanish communications satellite Wednesday night (Jan. 29), soaring the spacecraft ...

Ariane 5’s history: The Ariane 5 rocket was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) to be a heavy-lift launcher used to deliver payloads to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) and Low Earth ...

WASHINGTON — Katalyst Space, an Arizona-based startup, partnered with the European startup LMO Space to demonstrate a ...

The rocket was carrying and a Japanese communications satellite called JCSAT-14 into a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) — a fixed spot 25,000 miles above Earth. (The satellite will support ...

The SYstème de Lancement Double Ariane, or SYLDA, was designed to allow the two satellites to be stacked on top of each other and released in a geostationary transfer orbit. The primary space ...

It will be the first time a Space Force craft is refueled in orbit. Such a fuel shuttle could keep missions in space longer and eliminate the need for any craft to suspend its mission to retrieve ...

The U.S. arm of on-orbit services and logistics company Astroscale will attempt to refuel a pair of U.S. Space Force ...

The White House’s budget proposal for NOAA would seek to make major changes in a weather satellite program as well as ...

This heavy-lift rocket is capable of carrying a payload of more than 28,600 pounds to geostationary transfer orbit and 99,208 pounds to low Earth orbit. It had its first test launch, called NG-1 ...