NASA's giant new moon rocket is on its way to the launch pad. The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket began its 1 mph creep from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building on Saturday morning.

Embarking from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the 11 million-pound (5 million kilograms) stack will be transported at a speed of about 1 mph (1.6 km/h along a 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) route — a journey that will take up to 12 hours and be streamed live on NASA's Youtube channel.

A decades-old rocket factory in Redmond, Wash., is due to be rebranded with a time-honored name: Rocketdyne. If all goes according to plan, the facility will become part of a joint venture created under the terms of an $845 million deal involving L3Harris Technologies and AE Industrial Partners.

Rocket Lab’s stock price already reflects the impact of major recent milestones and renewed enthusiasm for the space sector, a KeyBanc analyst argues.

Up for a rocket launch this MLK weekend? Weather permitting, a SpaceX rocket could be visible from Palm Beach County on Sunday, Jan. 18.

A growing cadence … The Ariane 6 rocket has launched five times, including its debut flight in July 2024. All of the launches were a success, although the first flight failed to relight the upper stage in order to make a controlled reentry. Arianespace increased the cadence to four launches last year and will seek to try to double that this year.

China conducts static fire test of new reusable Long March 12B rocket China’s main space contractor performed a static fire test of a new reusable Long March rocket Friday, paving the way for a test flight.

Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ:RKLB) shares jumped about 6% on Friday after Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock from Equalweight to Overweight and raised its price target to $105 from $67. The brokerage cited growing market recognition of Rocket Lab as a strategically-important,