China’s private rocket maker Galactic Energy suffered a setback after its Ceres-1 rocket failed during launch on Monday, resulting in the loss of three satellites. The malfunction occurred during the ...

Arianespace, Europe’s long-standing primary launch provider, flew the Sentinel-1D Earth observation satellite aboard the ...

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...

The academy said in a news release that a new ignition testing facility has been put to use in Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, ...

Rockets are conceptually rather simple: you put the pointy bit upwards and make sure that the bit that will go flamey points downwards before starting the engine(s). Yet how to start each rocket ...

XCOR Aerospace continued the EZ-Rocket test program today with a test flight demonstrating shut down and restart of the rocket engines during the flight. The 6 minute 57 second flight took place at ...

Vulcan, United Launch Alliance's (ULA) new heavy-lift rocket, was not the result of having to flee an exploding planet, being exposed to gamma rays or even surviving the bite of a radioactive spider, ...

TOKYO — Japan’s space agency intentionally destroyed a new H3 rocket moments into its launch Tuesday after the ignition for the second stage of the country’s first new rocket series in more than two ...

China expands Guowang constellation, Galactic Energy suffers Ceres-1 launch failure China conducted a pair launches late ...

If everything goes according to schedule, the first ZQ 3 will take to the sky in the near future at the Jiuquan Satellite ...

Zhuque-3 reusable rocket. Photo: courtesy of LandSpace. China’s reusable rocket Zhuque-3 will make its maiden flight this ...