The first IRIDE satellite—the Pathfinder Hawk—is now in orbit around Earth after lifting off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from ...

Rocket Lab launched a private Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit today (Dec. 21) on the company's final mission of a busy 2024. An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand ...

The satellite will launch into a polar orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Using the sky map, SPHEREx has three scientific goals to achieve.