The first such flight, which Rocket Lab called "RAISE and Shine," occurred last December. It sent JAXA's Rapid Innovative ...

Dec. 14 (UPI) --Rocket Lab has successfully launched an Electron technology demonstration satellite for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The Saturday mission was the 77th Electron launch, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese scientists have successfully recreated Wagyu beef — complete with its distinctive fat marbling — in a laboratory using 3D ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — California-based Rocket Lab, which specializes in putting small satellites into orbit, launched a Japanese satellite on Friday from the space company's complex on New ...

Rocket Lab’s final Electron mission of the year did more than loft another payload into orbit. By delivering a Japanese radar satellite to space, the company locked in a new annual launch record for ...

A Rocket Lab Electron lifts off Dec. 15, carrying the StriX-α SAR imaging satellite for Synspective. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab successfully launched the first satellite for a Japanese ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts worked on the outside of Japan’s shiny new science lab Thursday, installing cameras and removing covers. Dressed head to toe in white, Michael Fossum and ...

ONJUKU – Scientists from the U.N. nuclear agency watched Friday as Japanese lab workers prepared samples of fish collected at a seafood market near the Fukushima nuclear plant to test the safety of ...

The space shuttle Endeavour is closing in on a planned docking tonight with the International Space Station, which is about to become even more of a global scientific village with the delivery of the ...

Aug. 5 (UPI) --Rocket Lab launched a synthetic aperture radar satellite dubbed QPS-SAR-12 for the Japanese company IQS on Tuesday morning, part of a mission to build its constellation in low Earth ...