Such last-minute assembly is not common in the world of rocketry. Huot said the company opted to wait to stack the rocket system in ... but the ship — which debuted several major upgrades ...

Transporting a structure of this magnitude in a single rocket is impractical, necessitating an innovative assembly approach. Autonomous Robots to Assemble Components in Space To address the ...

The rocket's upper stage — known as Starship, or simply "Ship" — was supposed to deploy 10 dummy satellites into a suborbital trajectory and then splash down in the Indian Ocean about an hour ...

The purchase of a drone barge that it will use for remote-controlled landings of its new Neutron rocket ship. The development of a new satellite designed for mass manufacture and easy packing inside.

But after the first-stage booster successfully landed atop a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the landing legs — and the booster tipped ...

The landing legs stuck up in the air and the melted body of the rocket hung off the side of the drone ship — making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers. The only ...

Kelly, D-Ariz., a retired astronaut, had challenged Musk to climb into a rocket ship by the time the social media spat concluded on Friday afternoon. “Hey @ElonMusk, when you finally get the ...