Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on its Florida launch pad in January. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space ...

SpaceX's seventh test flight of Starship started smoothly, with the rocket lifting off and its booster returning ... said the company had lost the ship, and SpaceX wrote on X that it had ...

(This story has been updated after the Federal Aviation Administration reported the rocket will lift off from NASA's Kennedy ... landing aboard a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

This weekly newsletter on rockets provides definitive coverage of the global launch industry. The big news this week is the New Glenn and Starship missions.

Elon Musk said a leak above the ship's engine firewall may ... The more than 400-foot rocket, powered by 33 Raptor engines, appeared to lift off successfully at 4:37 p.m. CT from SpaceX's ...

After another slight delay of less than an hour, the Falcon 9 finally blasted off at 2:18 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40. The rocket flew ... of Gravitas drone ship, which was waiting ...

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

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight ... but we are obviously bummed out about ship,” said SpaceX spokesman Dan Huot. “It’s a flight test. It’s an experimental vehicle ...

Several commercial flights appeared to have to divert their courses to avoid debris from the exploding rocket in and around the Caribbean ... but we are obviously bummed out about the ship," said ...

The more than 400-foot rocket, powered by 33 Raptor engines, appeared to lift off successfully at 4:37 ... it had lost all communications with the ship. The company said they lost several engines ...