While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.
Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, pulled off a daring booster catch on its most ambitious test flight yet, but ...
Opinion: We must defend against China’s development of “counterspace applications” that “contest our access to the space ...
Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...
Tesla CEO and Amazon founder vie for dominance of satellite launch market and could influence Nasa plans to return to Moon ...
It may be similar to the method NASA’s Space Shuttle used to unleash spacecraft. SpaceX said the satellite simulators used on today’s flight will be “similar in size and weight” to the ...
The billionaire space race entered a new phase today when Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully launched its 320-foot-tall New ...
That's still shorter than a Falcon 9 rocket — and a Space Shuttle orbiter by itself measures only 122 feet long. But our familiar SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — which launches Starlink and other ...
A fire in the aft section of SpaceX's Starship trigged the apparent explosion that destroyed the spacecraft, the company says ...
Disruption from increasing rocket launches is becoming a growing issue for commercial airlines ...