A giant slingshot might sound like something out of a science fair or a medieval battle—but one California startup is turning this idea into a revolutionary way to launch satellites. This system doesn ...

Starship is regarded as the world’s largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever developed. SpaceX is developing it for human spaceflights to the moon and Mars. The explosion occurred around 11 ...

The Starship launch vehicle is composed of both a 232-foot Super Heavy rocket and the 171-foot upper stage spacecraft, or capsule where crew and cargo would ride. Super Heavy alone is powered by ...

Launch Site One is the private ranch in the West Texas desert where Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches and tests its New Shepard spacecraft.

Currently, these vehicles are powered by the latest V903 engine, which can provide up to 760 hp and around 1570 lb-ft (2,129 Newton-meters) of torque.

The debris fell into the Indian Ocean away from inhabited areas. SpaceX was unable to conduct several tests it had planned ...

The Starship launch vehicle lifted off as planned around 7:37 p.m. ET from Starbase, SpaceX's company town in Boca Chica about 23 miles from Brownsville near the U.S.-Mexico border.

One of the center engines failed, leading three other engines to shut down, and SpaceX lost control over the vehicle for about nine and a half minutes after launch.

After the first Starship demonstration of 2025 also ended in an explosion, SpaceX later traced the culprit to a series of propellant leaks and fires in the aft section of the vehicle, commonly ...

Last month, ground crews placed the 212-foot-tall (64.6-meter) core stage between the Space Launch System's twin solid rocket boosters stacked inside one of the Vehicle Assembly Building's high ...

Accordingly, the first major breakthrough in the Semicryogenic engine development programme was achieved on March 28, when the first successful hot test of Engine PHTA, was carried out at the ISRO ...

The YF-102V, an open-cycle liquid oxygen-kerosene high-altitude engine, is designed for the second stage of cost-efficient, medium-sized launch vehicles.