In a cutting-edge milestone for orbital innovation, the U.S. military‘s secretive X-37B space plane has begun advanced aerobraking maneuvers to shift its orbit. Launched on its seventh mission ...

That U.S. Space Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7 ... was placed in an orbit higher than any of the earlier space plane missions – into a highly elliptical high Earth orbit.

Some high-density airspace regions could have as high as a 26% of being affected by an uncontrolled rocket body reentry.

Will the 2025 launch total set another new record? Stay tuned. Crews at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and neighboring Cape ...

Jeff Bezos already had the money and the motivation to build Orbital Reef. Now he also has a rocket to make it happen.

Beyond the ISS, Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser Cargo System (DCCS) may also serve future orbital installations in similar capacities. Milestones like Sierra Space’s Joint Test 10B are needed to c ...

Space Force officials project up to a whopping 156 orbital rockets may launch this year from Florida's Space Coast — an ambitious sum that would wipe out the newly established annual record of ...

A new paper by University of British Columbia researchers paints a stark picture of the risks of space debris on commercial ...

Space infrastructure company Loft Orbital has raised $170 million in Series C funding co-led by Tikehau Capital and Axial Partners. Notably, the amount of the Series C financing is greater than ...

If Dream Chaser looks like a blast from the past, it's not surprising. Not only is it a spaceplane like the NASA Space Shuttle that lifts off atop a conventional rocket booster and lands back on ...