The agency designs, builds, launches, and operates the nation's reconnaissance satellites. The NROL-57 mission was SpaceX’s third launch from Vandenberg this month and ninth from the base so far ...

Another SpaceX launch blazed through the sky late Thursday night. The space technology company launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets from the California coast just before midnight. The publication ...

This allows NASA to pay the companies — Elon Musk's SpaceX and Kelly Ortberg's Boeing — to launch and transport astronauts to space, freeing up NASA to focus on other orbital adventures ...

NROL-57 was the eighth launch of the NRO's "proliferated architecture," which the agency describes as "a new paradigm for assets the NRO is putting on orbit." Related: SpaceX launches 7th batch of ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Tuesday, March 18, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 12-25 mission. Original story: Expect a SpaceX ...