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The contract awarded to Raytheon is for Overhead Persistent Infrared sensor payloads. SpaceNews.com

Our closest stellar neighbour is Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf star about 4.2 light years away from us. It’s the third member of the Alpha Centauri group, and even though it’s so close, it can’t be seen with ...

The head of Russia's space program, Dmitry Rogozin, published a lengthy op-ed expressing mixed feelings about the recent SpaceX Demo-2 launch to the International Space Station.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Barcelona - the second largest city in Spain....

More than 8,500 active-duty Air Force service members have volunteered to join the U.S. Space Force -- the nation's newest military branch.

SpaceX successfully launched its first Starlink rideshare mission into orbit today (June 13), lofting 58 Starlink internet satellites along with three Earth-observation satellites before nailing a rocket landing at sea.

WASHINGTON -- SpaceX completed its ninth bulk Starlink launch June 13, a mission that included a rideshare customer for the first time. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida...

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket successfully launched a set of payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office and two universities June 13 on a mission delayed two and a half months by the coronavirus pandemic. SpaceNews.c...

Rocket Lab's 12th mission finally got off the ground early this morning (June 13) following a 2.5-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Leland Melvin says there was a night when he could have wrongfully been put in jail, stopping any chance of him flying twice in space as a NASA astronaut later in his career.