China’s Chang’e-6 mission returned lunar samples from the far side of the moon, the largely unexplored hemisphere, to Earth on Tuesday, June 25, 2024.
SpaceX sent Starship to orbit — the next launch will try to bring it back
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket could take to the skies for the fourth time on June 5, with the primary objective of evaluating the second stage’s reusable heat shield […]
NASA is expanding its Wallops Island facility to support three times as many launches
NASA is kicking off a formal environmental assessment of its facilities on Wallops Island, Virginia, to increase the number of authorized rocket launches at the site by almost […]
India lays foundations for a new spaceport dedicated to smaller launches
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has received the go-ahead to construct a new spaceport in Tamil Nadu, with which it aims to help private players launch small […]
Report: FAA should improve investigation process after a rocket launch goes awry
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has let launch providers conduct their own investigations in nearly every instance that a launch mishap has occurred since the start of the […]