The slowed-down video shows the rocket’s 33 Raptor engines firing up as the enormous 120-meter-tall vehicle leaves the launchpad. With the rocket pumping out a colossal 17 million pounds of ...

Nearly half of the artificial satellites in orbit carry a payload. Often, these are in the form of sensors for observation, ...

Eric Burks reenlisting as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off from the launchpad. Burks currently serves as Space Launch Delta 30 Public Affairs superintendent, Vandenberg posted on Facebook.

In that test, Starship’s mammoth booster, or the bottom of the rocket, successfully returned to the launchpad, but the upper-stage spacecraft disintegrated over the Caribbean, with some debris ...

(Updates with the latest information) SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is upright on its Kennedy Space Center's launch pad, waiting ...