Tagged With Rockets

SpaceX's new Starship rocket prototype soared 6 miles above Texas, but exploded during a landing attempt

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

SpaceX scrubs Saturday's launch of 143 satellites, saying it would try again Sunday

Kevin Shalvey

SpaceX may have purchased 2 oil rigs off the coast of Texas that could be turned into 'floating' Starship launchpads

Annabelle Williams

Watch video of NASA test-firing the world's most powerful rocket stage

Dave Mosher, Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Watch SpaceX try launching a new Starship rocket 6 miles above Texas on Tuesday

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin launched a rocket that could make way for space-tourism flights this year

Dave Mosher

Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other big missions to look for this year

Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Susie Neilson

The FAA released SpaceX's rough plan to fly Starship rockets to orbit from Texas, and the agency wants public input on it

Dave Mosher

SpaceX posted a jaw-dropping video of its Starship prototype belly flopping, flipping, and exploding into smithereens

Dave Mosher

SpaceX just launched — and exploded — an experimental Starship rocket in Texas. The test nevertheless propels Elon Musk's vision of interplanetary travel closer to reality.

Dave Mosher, Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Alabama rocket startup Aevum just unveiled the world's biggest drone — a 28-ton autonomous behemoth that may soon rocket US military satellites into orbit

Dave Mosher

SpaceX's next Starship rocket may soar 15 kilometers high on Tuesday, but Elon Musk says there's a 2-in-3 chance the flight could fail

Dave Mosher, Isobel Asher Hamilton, Kate Duffy, Morgan McFall-Johnsen

New FAA documents reveal SpaceX's latest plans for launching Starship prototypes on suborbital flights from South Texas — and potential hurdles to orbit

Dave Mosher

Rocket Lab is about to recover a used rocket booster for the first time. Watch the company launch its SpaceX-inspired mission.

Dave Mosher

Watch SpaceX launch a record-breaking astronaut mission for NASA into orbit

Susie Neilson, Dave Mosher

Rocket Lab will soon attempt its first-ever recovery of a rocket booster — a SpaceX-like capability that could save the company millions per launch

Dave Mosher

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has spent $1 billion trying to reach to space — while a small New Zealand startup got to orbit for a fraction of that

Dave Mosher

A US lab used rockets to launch a semi-truck into a new tractor trailer built to transport nuclear weapons

Ryan Pickrell

Elon Musk's SpaceX is launching a satellite that can measure rising sea levels to the millimetre from 830 miles above Earth

Kate Duffy

A dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body just avoided colliding in space and exploding into dangerous debris

Morgan McFall-Johnsen