SpaceX has scheduled two rocket launches from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base within a week. The sixth and seventh rocket launches of 2026 in California are coming up within a week – both SpaceX missions to deploy commercial Starlink internet satellites.

Rocket Lab launched its first mission of 2026 this morning (Jan. 22), sending two satellites aloft for the European company Open Cosmos.

SpaceX is starting 2026 with a high profile mission that will light up the skies over California tonight, sending an Italian radar satellite into orbit on a reusable Falcon 9. The flight is poised to mark the company’s first launch of the year and an ...

Rocket Lab launched a South Korean disaster-monitoring satellite from New Zealand on Thursday (Jan. 29), about six weeks later than originally planned.

Rocket Lab (RKLB) reports Neutron Stage 1 tank test rupture but says development continues; plus a successful Electron launch.

The launch date had been up in the air after the rocket's booster stage suffered an explosion during testing in November.