While SpaceX and Blue Origin deploy ships that operate as offshore landing platforms for rocket boosters, Seagate Space aims to launch rockets from sea.

SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing and targeting data, forming the “backbone” of a rearchitected network after separate Pentagon initiatives stalled,

Space.com editor-in-chief was in attendance at NASA's Wallops Flight Center for the first launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from US soil. Credit: Space.com / Tariq Malik

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SpaceX secures $6.45 billion in contracts from the U.S. Space Force. IPO closing market cap above $1T at 97.5% YES.

The U.S. military test-launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base on May 20, 2026.

A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. The United States set a record with 194 space launches in 2025, but that ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—The guardians manning screens in the mission-ops center here oversaw the launch of five types of rockets in April, a new record that involved NASA’s Artemis II, the first reused New Glenn booster, and a Falcon 9 lofting the ...

NASA and SpaceX are targeting a May 12 launch to deliver science, supplies and equipment to the International Space Station.

It is far too soon to mention retirement, but astute observers of the space industry have noticed SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket is not launching as often as it used to. The decline is modest so far, and it does not signal any problem at SpaceX or ...

Blue Origin’s journey toward launching New Glenn began in 2016 when Jeff Bezos first unveiled plans for the heavy-lift rocket. Named after astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, New Glenn represents a vision of expanding humanity’s access to space.