STARSHIP V3 ROARS TO LIFE — THE MOST POWERFUL ROCKET EVER BUILT REACHES SPACE ON ITS FIRST TRY
THE STORY On May 22, 2026, SpaceX launched Starship Flight 12 from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas — the debut flight of the
THE STORY On May 22, 2026, SpaceX launched Starship Flight 12 from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas — the debut flight of the
THE STORY On May 24, 2026, China launched the Shenzhou-23 mission from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, sending three astronauts to the Tiangong
THE STORY On May 20, 2026, SpaceX filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC under the ticker SPCX, offering the first-ever public
THE STORY Blue Origin announced it has completed the investigation into the failure on the third flight of its New Glenn rocket,
THE STORY Rocket Lab secured a $90 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to build and operate two geostationary orbit
THE STORY On May 22, 2026, NASA announced one of its most sweeping organizational realignments in recent memory, combining mission directorates and
THE STORY Four Russian satellites have maneuvered into close proximity to an ICEYE radar satellite, the Finnish-founded company whose synthetic aperture radar
THE STORY Varda Space Industries successfully returned its W-6 capsule to Earth on May 18, landing under parachute at the Koonibba Test
THE STORY Cowboy Space Corporation — formerly Aetherflux — closed a $275 million Series B led by Index Ventures and filed plans three days
THE STORY Engineers are developing a concept for a spherical, rolling robot that would carry a swarm of tiny "dandelion drones&
THE STORY The U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command announced plans for the USSF-23 mission, which will launch vehicles
THE STORY NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed a rare, unusually luminous supernova explosion that appears to have been