Before the ship loss, the company successfully demonstrated how its massive mechanical arms dubbed “chopsticks” caught the rocket booster at the launch pad for the second time ever.

SpaceX caught the Starship rocket’s Super Heavy booster for a second time, after it launched the upper stage into space on Thursday during a seventh test flight of the system. Soon after the ...

For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...

dock and autonomously refuel the moon-bound ship so it can blast out of Earth orbit and head for deep space. Astronauts launched in an Orion capsule atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket then ...

The Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, took flight during evening twilight, when light from ...

Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in the world, successfully blasted off a 320-foot-tall rocket ship made by his Blue Origin company from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the early hours of the morning.

A minute before the loss, SpaceX used the launch tower’s giant mechanical arms to catch the returning booster, a feat achieved only once before. The descending booster hovered over the launch pad ...

which licenses commercial rocket launches. While SpaceX said initial data indicates a fire developed in the aft section of the ship, Musk said on X that next month's eighth Starship flight is ...

SpaceX is one day away from the launch its first Starship flight of 2025, a mission that will test a new version of the world's largest rocket ... Indian Ocean when the Ship vehicle returns ...

The company said they lost several engines and telemetry and that the ship had been lost. There were no astronauts on board the test flight mission. SpaceX added that the rocket used Thursday is a ...

It was a triumph for Jeff Bezos as his rocket ship, New Glenn, blasted off. The Amazon founder watched from the control center as Blue Origin employees across the nation celebrated. It's the first ...

The ship had successfully separated from the booster and had started its own rocket engines to ascend to orbit before it appeared some of those engines gave out. The company then saw its link to ...