The New Shepard rocket is scheduled to launch from West Texas on Thursday, December 18. The suborbital flight will last about 11 minutes, offering passengers a few minutes of weightlessness. Other crew members include a German aerospace engineer with the ...

The number of orbital launch attempts worldwide last year surpassed the record 2024 flight rate by 25 percent, with SpaceX and China accounting for the bulk of the launch activity, Aviation Week & Space Technology reports.

But first, a bit of space telescope history. One of the most powerful space-based telescopes to be launched into the Earth’s orbit was Hubble in 1990. NASA’s eye in the sky was first conceived in a paper by Yale University astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer Jr.

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space technology company, designed the New Glenn to compete with fellow billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon rockets in commercial orbital spaceflight ventures. New Glenn was initially set to get off the ground Sunday, Nov. 9 ...

SpaceX has two Starlink deployment missions on the schedule for the first half of November so far. Elon Musk's commercial spaceflight company may also be working toward a November launch of a rideshare mission known as Transporter 15. SpaceX is ready for ...

Wenchang is also home to China's first commercial aerospace launch site, which has sent more than 90 satellites into their planned orbits since its maiden launch in November 2024. Highly frequent rocket launches have driven the aerospace-themed tourist services in the city.