Stratolaunch, the builder of the world's biggest airplane, called Roc, won its initial $17 million bid for Virgin Orbit's flagship carrier plane and related assets required to operate it. Cosmic ...

Last week, Virgin Orbit said it was laying off 675 employees, or about 85 percent of its work force, citing its “inability to secure meaningful funding.”. Dan Hart, the company’s chief ...

Small "backpacks" that can attach to existing spacecraft in orbit may help out-of-fuel satellites live a while longer. The U.S. Space Force is eyeing a number of options to extend the life of ...

China’s Tiandu-1 satellite has entered a critical fuel-efficient orbit that synchronises with the motion of the Earth and moon, but claims that it is the first spacecraft to achieve the feat ...