But suppose the goal is to let the rocket escape from Earth’s gravity forever so it can fly off into the depths of space. That’s when scientists do a neat trick called staging. They launch ...

As Spectrum's first test flight, Isar has opted not to fly any customer payloads onboard the rocket, and instead is ... pounds (1,000 kilograms) to low-Earth orbit. Over the course of the past ...

The Fram2 crew launched to polar orbit, flying straight south, Monday night. Lift off was 9:46 p.m. from KSC Pad 39A, Florida ...

SpaceX launched a stack of Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California and returned the booster to Earth Friday afternoon (March 26). The Falcon 9 rocket flying the mission, Starlink 11 ...

Isar Aerospace was launched in 2018 by a team of German students who wanted to ape the SpaceX model of launching lightweight payloads into low Earth orbit (LEO) with a privately developed rocket ...