The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture ...

NASA conducted a full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor - part ...

The Space Launch System rocket's RS-25 engine was fired up for the “final round of certification testing ahead of production ...

Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

A major step toward launch day is complete as NASA's Artemis II astronauts ran through a countdown demonstration test.

Rocket Lab had its most successful year to date in 2025, with its Electron rocket completing 21 successful flights and the ...

NASA’s launch and mission teams, along with the Artemis II crew, completed a key test Dec. 20, a countdown demonstration test, ahead of the Artemis II flight around the Moon early next year.

The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA's twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to ...

California-based Rocket Lab has completed systems integration for its Photon spacecraft ahead of the upcoming LOXSAT mission with Eta Space and NASA. Designed to showcase in-orbit cryogenic refueling, ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

Blue Origin's second New Glenn rocket just made a big move. Jeff Bezos' company rolled a New Glenn first stage out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday (Oct.

New Glenn is vertical on the pad and its engines are hot. The second-ever liftoff of Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket is approaching as the launch vehicle undergoes final checkouts at Launch ...