The USSF-106 payloads feature demonstrations and experiments from Department of Defense customers, including the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3).

Dragon’s four main parachutes have deployed is a standard confirmation phrase from SpaceX, signaling a successful, critical step in a SpaceX Crew or Cargo Dragon's return to Earth, slowing its descent for a safe splashdown in the ocean, indicating nominal operation as it nears landing.

Vulcan’s Centaur V upper stage offers flexibility and extreme endurance enabling the most complex orbital insertions to the most challenging and exotic orbits. Provides higher performance and greater accessibility while continuing to deliver unmatched reliability and precision across national ...

Rocket Lab's "The Harvest Goddess Thrives" launch was a successful Electron mission (mission 69) on August 5, 2025, from New Zealand, deploying the Japanese QPS-SAR-12 (KUSHINADA-I) radar satellite for iQPS (Institute of Q-shu Pioneers), enhancing their Earth-imaging constellation with ...

The Burn Sequence, a podcast hosted by Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA), takes listeners on a journey through the evolving world of space exploration and cutting-edge technology. Drawing from his own personal experiences over several decades, Tory explores everything ...

SpaceX Crew-11 mission, carrying astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov, successfully launched on August 1, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center, heading to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endeavour.

On July 15, SpaceX tested the deployment of its newly developed drogue parachutes designed for the Dragon spacecraft. These parachutes, built entirely in-house, feature stronger joints and ribbons as well as a repositioned pack to ensure smoother deployment and inflation.

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked at 7:15 a.m. EDT from the space-facing port of the International Space Station's Harmony module, completing the fourth private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4).

The Burn Sequence, a podcast hosted by Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA), takes listeners on a journey through the evolving world of space exploration and cutting-edge technology. Drawing from his own personal experiences over several decades, Tory explores everything ...

On July 2, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket completed a flawless landing of its first stage booster on the autonomous droneship Just Read the Instructions stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. This successful recovery marks another step in SpaceX’s efforts to make rockets reusable, significantly reducing launch ...

The second launch of Amazon's Project Kuiper will use a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket to deliver the first satellites of the constellation into low Earth orbit (LEO). Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to provide fast, reliable ...

The 'Symphony In The Stars' mission lifted-off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand on June 28th (7:08 p.m./07:08 UTC) to deploy a single spacecraft to a 650km circular Earth orbit.