Guided Missiles

A powerful new rocket from United Launch Alliance blasted off Monday, taking with it a vehicle expected to make the first U.S. lunar landing in more than half a century.The Vulcan Centaur rocket, which took to the skies from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 2:18 a.m. local time, included the Peregrine Lunar Lander vehicle which, if successful, would carry out the first lunar exploration since the final Apollo mission in 1972.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have both spent decades building space companies. Now, Bezos’ Amazon.com is turning to Musk’s SpaceX for a ride to orbit.Amazon, which Bezos founded and where he still serves as executive chairman, said Friday that it hired Musk’s SpaceX to conduct three rocket launches for the Seattle company’s planned satellite-internet division. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have both spent decades building space…

The company’s rockets are ferrying astronauts, launching satellites and dominating any competitionSpaceX used a Falcon 9 rocket to launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts on board to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center last October. Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images The company’s rockets are ferrying astronauts, launching satellites and dominating any competitionSpaceX used a Falcon 9 rocket to launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts on board to the International…

Amazon . com Inc.’s satellite-powered internet business is closer to getting off the ground.  The company recently unveiled the antennas that future subscribers of its Project Kuiper internet service would need to communicate with the satellites it plans to start mass producing this year. It isn’t clear when the first of those satellites will be blasted into orbit, but Amazon has said it expects to begin delivering broadband connections for some customers by the end of 2024. Amazon .…

The launch company owned by Boeing Co. BA -4.90% and Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT -0.08% is targeting late spring for the initial flight of a powerful new rocket it has been developing, a major test of the delayed vehicle.United Launch Alliance now plans to blast off Vulcan Centaur, as the rocket is called, for the first time in early May, ULA Chief Executive Tory Bruno said Thursday evening.…

Screenshot from a Facebook video taken by a civilian in the city of Gangneung, South Korea showing a fire after a failed missile test by the South Korean military.Screenshot: FacebookSouth Korea’s military accidentally hit its own air force base during a missile test on Tuesday, according to a new report from the Korea Times. The unfortunate accident caused a fire and sent the opposite of its intended message: That South Korea and the U.S. are ready to respond to North Korea in the event of any military escalation.North…

Researchers analyzed this North Korean-produced video as well as satellite imagery to show that the DPRK likely used prior footage of a failed missile launch in their March 24 “monster missile” test.Gif: NK NewsDo you remember back in March when international analysts were equal parts terrified by the prospect of North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles and bemused by Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s self parody-level video promoting their military might? Well, evidence produced by experts on missile proliferation and…

A Boeingspacecraft blasted into orbit and began racing toward the International Space Station, despite facing an issue with two of the thrusters the vehicle uses. After months of delays, the Starliner spacecraft launched toward orbit shortly before 7 p.m. Eastern time Thursday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida without crew members on board, according to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration live stream. The vehicle is expected to fly to the space station and dock there Friday, before it returns to Earth…