The payload Russia's military chose to launch on the Angara A5 is unusual. The rocket deployed its primary passenger, Kosmos ...

The goal of Outpost Mars Demo-1 mission was to cut a piece of corrosion-resistant metal, similar to the outer shell of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur and common in space debris, using a ...

Gilmour Eris Testflight 1 After weeks of delays, Australia is finally poised to join the orbital launch club. Gilmour Space ...

We're entombing the Earth in an impenetrable shell of dead satellites. The night sky will never be the same ... NASA estimates that there’s around 6,000 tonnes of debris in Low Earth Orbit alone.

Deimos in Shell orbit Shell E&P is lining up a possible appraisal well in the fourth quarter on its Deimos discovery in Mississippi Canyon block 806 in the deep-water US Gulf.

On Monday night Virgin Orbit's attempt to launch a rocket from the United Kingdom failed after a problem with the rocket's second-stage engine.. The US-based launch company did not provide any ...

NASA estimates this orbit contains around 34,000 pieces of debris larger than 10 cm in diameter, 900,000 objects between 1 cm and 10 cm, and more than 128 million fragments between 1 mm and 1 cm ...

Mars B back in orbit for Shell Anglo-Dutch Supermajor Shell has put the Mars B formerly Mars South project back on its development schedule. 30 April 2008 23:01 GMT Updated 30 April 2008 23:01 GMT ...

Virgin Orbit U.K. space mission fails as rocket suffers "anomaly" after launch 05:36. After a successful climb into space, Cosmic Girl successfully released LauncherOne, but the rocket experienced ...

Virgin Orbit — the rocket company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson — is laying off the vast majority of its workforce as corporate leadership struggles to secure additional funding.