Virgin Orbit stock subsequently dropped 14%. Now, the good news for shareholders is that despite an ongoing investigation having failed to explain the anomaly, investors appear to have forgotten their ...

A routine launch of SpaceX satellites ran into problems Thursday night when they were deployed at a lower-than-intended orbit because of an issue with the second-stage engine on the Falcon 9 rocket ...

Two astronauts who have been stuck in space weeks longer than planned believe Boeing will get the pair back to Earth safely even as the troubled company’s space capsule has faced a string of problems.

When astronauts began spending six months and more aboard the International Space Station, they started to notice changes in their vision. For example, many found that, as their mission progressed, ...

Russia now admittedly carried out a direct-ascent anti-satellite missile mission that took out its own spacecraft, reducing to rubble Cosmos 1408 — a more-than-2-ton Tselina-D spysat that launched ...

Remote-sensing satellite operator HawkEye 360 is the latest to experience problems in orbit, due to an “irreparable” failure of propulsion systems made by Austria-based Enpulsion, compounded by high ...

The change coincided with the onset of the new solar cycle, and experts think it might be the beginning of some difficult years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Virgin Orbit suffered an anomaly in its latest rocket launch earlier this month. No clear explanation has been given for the failure, and an investigation is ongoing. Meanwhile, Virgin Orbit continues ...