"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

SpaceX's gigantic Starship rocket has been "lost" just minutes into its seventh test flight. The 400ft rocket - the biggest and most powerful in the world - soared from Boca Chica, south Texas ...

The New Glenn’s second stage captured an image of Earth as it achieved orbit during the rocket’s first flight. Credit: Blue Origin The U.S. has entered a new era of heavy-lift launch—one of ...

Credit: OroraTech WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab announced Jan. 22 a contract to launch a set of wildfire-monitoring satellites for German company OroraTech on a short turnaround. Rocket Lab said it ...

CASC, meanwhile, is developing more powerful and complex full flow staged combustion methalox engines for its Long March 9 super heavy-lift rocket. SAST launched its expendable, kerosene-liquid ...

What happens now? The second stage of the rocket is now gliding through orbit, carrying the Blue Ring Pathfinder payload. In a short while, the rocket's upper stage will orient itself down towards ...

The mission, intended to push the boundaries of reusable spacecraft technology, ended abruptly when the rocket exploded just ... recovery of the Super Heavy booster using its innovative ...

A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up during a test flight of the megarocket's capabilities Thursday. Two extended "chopsticks" successfully caught the Super Heavy booster at its launch site — a ...

The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Blue Origin managed something no commercial rocket company has done successfully by reaching orbit on the first try with its New Glenn rocket during an overnight launch ...