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An Electron rocket is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab 's New Zealand site today at 9:15 p.m. EDT (0115 GMT and 1:15 p.m. New Zealand time on May 29), carrying a "Gen-3" satellite for Virginia-based BlackSky toward low Earth orbit (LEO).

SpaceX has revolutionized space travel by making rocket launches more affordable through the innovative reuse of its first stage boosters. But have you ever wondered why SpaceX doesn’t recover and reuse the rocket’s second stage?

A Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday afternoon closed May with a quintet of missions to deliver Starlink satellites into

NASA has previously been hedging its bets by developing its own heavy launch rocket as well as supporting the development of Starship. But with recent funding cuts, it’s looking more and more likely that the SLS will get axed — leaving SpaceX as the only player in town to facilitate NASA’s Mars plans.

It was Blue Origin's 12th flight carrying passengers to the edge of space and back since company founder Jeff Bezos flew the first such crewed mission in 2021.

Mark Rocket joined Jaime Alemán, Jesse Williams, Paul Jeris, Gretchen Green and Amy Medina Jorge on board the RSS First Step — Blue Origin's first of two human-rated New Shepard capsules — for a trip above the Kármán Line, the 62-mile-high (100-kilometer) internationally recognized boundary between Earth and space.

Six well-traveled adventurers are due to go where they've never gone before when Blue Origin sends them on a suborbital space trip.