A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit for Thursday from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

United Launch Alliance is running short on usable hardware this year having to rely on its dwindling supply of Atlas V rockets while it continues an investigation into what went wrong on the last launch of its successor rocket Vulcan.

Rocket Lab (RKLB) has demonstrated strong revenue growth and execution, but the current valuation exceeds 100x sales, raising concerns about forward returns. RKLB's future hinges on successful Neutron rocket launches,

The mission marks Electron’s ninth launch for Synspective’s StriX radar satellite constellation. ・Rocket Lab said Sunday its LOXSAT mission will launch Eta Space’s cryogenic fuel technology aboard an Electron rocket later this year.

Scientists learned early on how crucial the roll maneuver was to get astronauts to space, and NASA has been using it since the days of its earliest rockets.

As a testbed for its technology, Skyroot worked on a suborbital version of its rocket, Vikram-S, from 2020 to 2022 and launched the 6-meter rocket in November of that year. The larger Vikram-1 rocket now nearing its debut consists of three solid-fueled stages,