Dave Limp tells Commercial Space Conference attendees what it's going to take to get back to the Moon and eventually Mars via ...

SpaceX crews are preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday from Florida’s Space Coast. The launch is set for 1:53 p.m.

Musk wrote. The test wasn't a total botch, though. SpaceX managed to successfully complete the rocket booster return and catch at the launch pad for the second time ever. The booster was caught ...

Just minutes after the rocket launched, its booster made its planned return to the ground and after momentarily hovering over the launchpad, it was spectacularly caught between two giant ...

The 177-foot-tall twin solid rocket boosters provide more than 75% of the ... were formed when the universe was 1.2 billion years old, stretching at least twice the length of the Milky Way galaxy.

What Happened: Following separation from the rocket’s second stage, the booster that supported the Starlink mission landed back on Earth, enabling the company to reuse it for another mission.

The trials verify that the fuel can survive the harsh environment of a nuclear rocket reactor. Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been through chemical rockets. To be fair ...

If the design had come to fruition, it would have been the largest rocket ever built ... better to create something now termed a "big dumb booster". "Current U.S. expendable launch vehicles ...

18 (UPI) --The Federal Aviation Administration has paused SpaceX's launch of its Starship rocket as the U.S. agency ... grabbed the Starship's returning fuel booster stage at 6 minutes, 56 seconds ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight on Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at the pad ... Musk said a preliminary analysis ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX suspects a fire is to blame for his 400-foot-tall Starship imploding in space after launching from Texas — sending trails of flaming debris raining down near the Caribbean.

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday (January 16, 2025), but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at the pad. Elon Musk’s ...