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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has officially launched on its mission to explore dark matter, dark energy and other mysteries of the universe. NASA’s new space telescope, which is able to image swaths of the sky 100 times larger than what Hubble could capture, launched this morning from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on a…

The 195 square mile site will house five launch complexes, each with two launch pads.

SpaceX has announced it will build a second spaceport for future launches of its Starship mega-rocket at a former Exxon property in Louisiana, ending what the company says was a seven-year search for a suitable location.

The Nancy Grace Roman telescope is heading to space in a few days. It’s set for launch on August 30, no earlier than 7:26AM Eastern time, with NASA’s live coverage to begin at 6:20AM. The agency’s engineers completed the final inspection of the telescope’s primary mirror in late May to make sure it hadn’t been damaged…

President Donald Trump bought as much as $50,000 worth of SpaceX shares on June 23, according to a financial disclosure first two weeks after the record-setting IPO of Elon Musk’s company

Japan is pouring billions of dollars into its burgeoning space industry and easing restrictions on defense exports, efforts designed to build a homegrown aerospace sector filled with domestic startups that have a global reach.

A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for many more people than intended, according to a new study.

Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it has added a $250 million extension to its March $170 million Series A funding round. The extension values the company at $2.3 billion.

Katalyst’s LINK spacecraft will still rendezvous with the telescope but will no longer tug it to a higher orbit.

The United States Space Force and Japan have completed a bilateral satellite launch meant to strengthen surveillance capabilities across the Pacific region and beyond.