Satellite News

A Rocket Lab Electron booster lifted off from the company’s New Zealand launch site Monday (March 22), carrying seven satellites to orbit for a variety of customers.

A Rocket Lab Electron booster is scheduled to lift off from the company’s New Zealand launch site today at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT), on a mission dubbed “They Go Up So Fast.”

A U.S. weather satellite that retired eight years ago has fallen apart in orbit, breaking into at least 16 pieces, according to government representatives.

Over the weekend, NASA’s Perseverance rover dropped the debris shield that protected the Mars helicopter Ingenuity during the mission’s epic Feb. 18 touchdown.

SpaceX just fired up its latest Starship prototype, keeping the vehicle on track for a high-altitude test flight this week.

Once described as the most complex flying machine ever built, comprised of more than 2.5 million moving parts, you can now assemble your own model of NASA’s space shuttle using just 2,354 pieces.

You’ll soon be able to recreate one of NASA’s most famous space shuttle missions in Lego for with the new NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set.

Brian Binne, veteran test pilot of SpaceShipOne, weighs in on flying the first commercial spacecraft and what the future of private space travel holds in his new book “The Magic and Menace of SpaceShipOne.”