The space race heats up: all the news on the latest rocket launches

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts disconnected from motorboat pad 30A astatine the Kennedy Space Center, carrying 4 astronauts to the Space Station. | Photo by Manuel Mazzanti/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The commercialized abstraction manufacture is booming, and it’s lone expected to support increasing arsenic much billionaire-led companies nonstop rockets into the sky. Elon Musk’s SpaceX continues to predominate the abstraction manufacture with dozens of launches each year, but it could soon person immoderate superior contention with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launching its rival New Glenn rocket for the archetypal time successful January.

Plenty much launches are to come, including different trial of SpaceX’s monolithic Starship rocket, which exploded while successful formation successful March. Blue Origin is besides acceptable to send Katy Perry into space aboard its New Shepard arsenic portion of an all-woman ngo on April 14th.

Then there’s Boeing, which NASA isn’t giving up on adjacent aft issues with Starship resulted successful astronauts having to widen their week-long enactment astatine the Space Station to 9 months. NASA and Boeing are aiming for different crewed formation aboriginal this twelvemonth oregon successful aboriginal 2026. The European Space Agency’s Ariane 6 rocket is besides successful the mix, which embarked connected its archetypal commercialized ngo successful March.

Follow on beneath for each the latest updates connected rocket launches.

• This effort astatine a archetypal orbital motorboat from Europe lasted astir 30 seconds.
• NASA and Boeing analyse Starliner’s ‘anomalies’ earlier its adjacent crewed flight
• Katy Perry blasts disconnected to abstraction adjacent month.
• SpaceX Crew-9 and the Boeing Starliner astronauts person landed safely.
• The Starliner astronauts are connected their mode backmost to Earth.
• SpaceX’s latest Starship detonation lights up the entity implicit the Caribbean again
• SpaceX’s 8th Starship formation trial ends successful different explosion.
• Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket takes disconnected connected its archetypal commercialized mission.
• SpaceX’s adjacent Starship trial formation has been delayed again.
• Jeff Bezos is sending Katy Perry to space
• SpaceX thinks it knows wherefore Starship exploded connected its past trial flight
• SpaceX’s fiery Starship detonation enactment connected a fantastic amusement but delayed and diverted flights
• That’s not a meteor shower, that was a Starship.
• SpaceX catches Starship booster for a 2nd clip but loses the spacecraft
• Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully launches SpaceX rival
• Blue Origin prepares for a high-stakes New Glenn launch
• Two backstage landers caput to the satellite to assistance aboriginal NASA astronauts
• Returning SpaceX rockets are disrupting hose flights.
• Blue Origin sets a caller model for New Glenn launch.
• New Glenn: Blue Origin’s large rocket motorboat is… scrubbed
• Blue Origin’s New Glenn motorboat is delayed again.
• Blue Ghost Lunar Lander scheduled to motorboat connected January 15th