The satellite image released Thursday shows the smoldering remains of a rocket at a Iran space center that was to conduct a U.S.-criticized satellite launch. (Planet Labs Inc, Middlebury Institute ...

Or, if an individual satellite in a constellation gets damaged or degraded, the Orbital Carrier could quickly deploy a new one, fulfilling the "pre-positioned launch pad" role Gravitics envisions.

The rocket was scheduled to hoist the Amos 6 satellite into orbit where it was expected to operate for 16 years on behalf of Facebook and bring Internet connectivity to sub-Saharan Africa.

The launch of the spy satellite, known as NROL-76, was scrubbed at 4:17 a.m. at Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two-hour launch window opened at 4 a.m. Pacific time.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad during a test procedure. The explosion destroyed a satellite that was to be used in part for Facebook's Internet . org initiative.

Reuters 2018-11-06T16:12:41Z FILE PHOTO: General view of the centre stage of Web Summit, Europe's biggest tech conference, in Lisbon Thomson Reuters ...

The launch pad is the project of New Zealand-based Rocket Lab, a private spaceflight company founded in 2007 with a vision of sending small communication satellites into space. To put the company ...

China deployed a communications satellite for Pakistan on Thursday, August 11, 2011, aboard a Long March 3B rocket.(Image credit: China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT)) ...