ERPS members fly the KISS Beta test vehicle at Fresno Tripoli HPR meet.
Members of ERPS check out the static engine test facilities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in Mojave.
About a dozen ERPS members got a tour of SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, CA.
E.R.P.S. members from the K.I.S.S. vehicle team prep the static stand at F.A.R. for an engine firing.
Europe’s first Ariane 6 rocket lifts off from a new launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. The first European Ariane 6 rocket fired off its launch pad at the edge of the Amazon rainforest and climbed into orbit Tuesday, an
A pathfinder for Gravitics’ 4-meter space station module design in use for developing manufacturing and assembly methods. Washington-based startup Gravitics has signed a $125 million contract to expand Axiom Space’s planned space station, the latest deal in the burgeoning private
A model of the Resurs-P spacecraft like the one that suffered a breakup event in low Earth orbit June 26. Credit: Vitaly V. Kuzmin CC BY-SA 4.0 TOKYO — A Russian satellite likely suffered a “low-intensity explosion” that created hundreds
SpaceX’s Starship rocket launches on its fourth fully integrated test flight, on June 6, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX) We won’t have to wait much longer to see the most powerful rocket ever built take to the skies again, if all
An assembled Tianlong-3 first stage. Credit: Space Pioneer Hausjärvi, FINLAND — A rocket stage test firing by Chinese commercial company Space Pioneer ended in catastrophic failure and a dramatic explosion Sunday. Space Pioneer conducted what was intended to be a
NASA astronaut Mike Barratt comes into the International Space Station following a spacewalk halted after 31 minutes on June 24, 2024. (Image credit: NASA TV) We’ll have to wait a while to see NASA astronauts step outside the International Space
The 350th Falcon 9 rocket launches on June 27, 2024, on the Starlink 10-3 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now SpaceX is marking two key records with the launch of its latest batch of Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force
A SAST test article during a VTVL reusable rocket test, June 23, 2024. Credit: CASC HELSINKI — SAST has conducted China’s highest altitude launch and landing test so far as the country chases reusable rocket capabilities. A 3.8-meter-diameter test article
Firefly’s fifth Alpha rocket is being prepared to launch as early as June 26 from Vandenberg SFB in California on a NASA-backed mission to deploy eight cubesats. Firefly reveals plans for new launch sites. Firefly Aerospace plans to use the
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck speaks during the opening of the new Rocket Lab factory on October 12, 2018, in Auckland, New Zealand. Peter Beck has been having a pretty great June. Earlier this month, he was made a Knight