Rockets rarely blast straight upward and keep going in that direction. Instead, most orbital launches curve eastward, leaning into the spin of the planet to squeeze out every bit of free speed they ...

For the second time in 2026, a SpaceX rocket is due to blast off from Southern California. Here's where (and what time) you ...

The number of orbital launch attempts worldwide last year surpassed the record 2024 flight rate by 25 percent, with SpaceX ...

Blue Origin's next New Shepard mission is scheduled to launch Thursday, Dec. 18, from West Texas. The suborbital flight lasts about 11 minutes, offering passengers a few minutes of weightlessness and ...

This year's sum of 109 launches shattered the short-lived annual record of 93 liftoffs set last year. That number was ...

Welcome to Edition 8.17 of the Rocket Report! Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the first crewed launch to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur. Since this time, humans ...

Rocket Lab plans to launch its Electron rocket from Virginia's Wallops Flight Facility at midnight, Dec.18. The mission will deliver four experimental disk-shaped satellites into orbit for the U.S.

SpaceX’s last flight of 2025 is the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation mission for the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence, launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

A Falcon 9 rocket launching in California is due to carry 28 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. The next launch is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 4, from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The launch ...

Will people in Fort Myers and Naples see a rocket in the sky? A so Florida thing is coming up − and it's possible people can see it far beyond the Sunshine State. United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V ...