To refuel the Moon bound Starship, SpaceX will launch several “tanker” versions of the spacecraft ... until the Depot is filled, making the refueling process more resilient against any ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

Refueling in orbit has never been achieved ... to transfer at least 10 metric tons of liquid oxygen from a header tank to ...

The Air Force may have to keep its aging KC-135 tankers flying beyond their planned 2050 retirement, depending on how many ...

However, the Next-Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) stealth tanker seems destined to a gloomy future, as the USAF recommended against pursuing it. While the NGAD stealth fighter and the NGAS ...

SpaceX's Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas and dealing another setback to Elon Musk's rocket program after a failure under ...

The RAF regularly refuels coalition aircraft with Voyager multirole transport tankers, the service's sole air-to-air refueling tanker that is equipped with two underwing pods for refueling ...

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A new U.S. Air Force analysis that recommends a systems-based approach to achieve survivable air refueling renders moot a next-gen stealthy tanker like the one pictured. Credit: Lockheed Martin ...

It could also be lifted to Earth orbit fully fueled by a single Starship and sent directly to Mars with five tons of cargo without any Earth-orbit refueling, or 25 tons of cargo with a single tanker ...

But on Monday, his towering Starship rocket will return ... also needs to demonstrate complex in-orbit refueling—using other Starships as fuel tankers—to enable long-distance space travel.