Launch capacity scarcity is forcing space operators toward costly dedicated rockets as SpaceX indicates plans to wind down Falcon 9 rideshare flights after 2028.
Rocket Lab has formally acknowledged its Neutron medium-lift rocket will not fly until next year, citing first-stage propellant tank manufacturing problems.
Rocket Lab has signed what it calls its largest Electron launch service agreement to date, with a 20-mission agreement with Japanese radar maker Synspective.
Rocket Lab is challenging NASA’s award of the Mars Telecommunications Network program to Blue Origin, arguing the agency’s source selection was faulty.
Editors discusses the latest developments with the NRO, the Victus Haze rendezvous and proximity operations missions, and what awaits the new slate of U.S. defense and intelligence space leadership.
The launch window for Rocket Lab’s initial Neutron test flight this year is “narrowing" but the company is committed to getting the first article on the Wallops Island, Virginia, launchpad by year's end.
As a first generation of hypersonic weapons in the U.S. nears fielding, the Pentagon has adopted a different set of goals than range and speed for the next.
When the U.S. Space Force recently announced it had awarded nine base contracts for one of its marquee new programs, it opted to disclose only one provider: SpaceX.
