PARIS - India's PSLV rocket on Sept. 26 successfully placed the Indian SCATSAT-1 meteorological satellite and seven co-passengers into separate polar low Earth orbits. Operating from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre, the PSLV completed a record fifth mission in a calendar year, breaking the the ...

[Via Satellite 09-30-2016] The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin $395 million in contract options for the production of the ninth and 10th Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite. The contract includes funding for both long-lead items and full production for the next two Space ... ...

The news came last week. SpaceX has so far launched and landed five first-stage Falcon 9 "reusable" rockets (versus Boeing's (NYSE:BA) and Lockheed Martin's (NYSE:LMT) zero, a record equaled by Arianespace in Europe). SpaceX now expects to triple the rate at which it recovers used rockets. SpaceX ...

But this scene may have represented something much more than that. With its small-scale test Saturday, the company Vector Space Systems took another step toward upending the rapidly expanding small satellite launch market. Not since the Germans and their V-2 rockets during World War II has anyone ...

After a tough setback in 2014, Virgin Galactic hopes to get one step closer to offering commercial flights into space.The company, owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PSJ, secured operator licenses today from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of ...

After a tough setback in 2014, Virgin Galactic hopes to get one step closer to offering commercial flights into space.The company, owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PSJ, secured operator licenses today from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of ...