United Launch Alliance's years-long delays with its new Vulcan rocket have flipped the script for national security missions, ...

Elon Musk, the head of SpaceX, has announced that he may shut down the company’s Dragon spacecraft. This decision could ...

The selection of two companies for the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract was a pivotal moment for the military’s launch program that had long been dependent on a single provider ...

WASHINGTON — In keeping with a mandate from Congress, the Air Force on Friday officially renamed the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program. It is now the National Security Space Launch program.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force on Oct. 30 opened the bidding process for emerging space launch providers to compete for national security missions under the National Security Space Launch ...

The U.S. Space Force on Friday announced the first two task orders under a revamped five-year program that awards national security missions. Both went to SpaceX. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, longtime ...

The newly announced round — which is known as National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 — also allotted $5.9 billion in contracts to SpaceX, and $5.4 billion to United Launch Alliance.

The Space Systems Command has awarded National Security Space Launch, or NSSL, Phase 3 Lane 2 contracts with a cumulative amount of $13.68 billion to three companies. The firm-fixed-price ...

A SpaceX-made Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off as part of the U.S. National Security Space Launch program on Dec. 28, 2023. (Joshua Conti/U.S. Air Force) Whenever the U.S. military launched a satellite ...

A SpaceX launch of a GPS satellite Friday marked the latest national security mission taken away from United Launch Alliance because of delays to its Vulcan rocket.

Northrop Grumman investment supports development of Firefly’s Eclipse, a medium-lift model designed for a range of mission ...

United Launch Alliance's (ULA) venerable Atlas V rocket flew its final national security mission on Tuesday morning (July 30). The Atlas V launched from Florida's Canaveral Space Force Station on ...