marking a new record for the up-and-coming SpaceX rival. The Finding Hot Wildfires Near You mission lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Pad B, in Mahia, New Zealand, on Wednesday local time.

The mission was expected to lift off during an hourlong ... “did trigger autonomously.” Rocket safety systems typically include software designed to blow up a malfunctioning vehicle to prevent ...

Capturing a close-up of the world’s most powerful ... generated by the Raptor engines as the Starship lifted off. Once testing of the rocket is complete, NASA and SpaceX will use the Starship ...

Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to lift ... off a Super Heavy chopsticks catch that day, but Ship didn't fare so well: It suffered a propellant leak and ...

Europe's powerful new Ariane 6 rocket will not fly today (March 3) after all. The Ariane 6 had been scheduled to launch a French spy satellite from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana ...

The reusable rocket, New Glenn, had initially been due to set off earlier this week, but was postponed following a "vehicle subsystem issue". The mission was partially successful after the booster ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The inaugural flight of Relativity Space’s Terran 1 will lift off today. When the ...

"We need an off-ramp ... the SLS rocket after Congress directed NASA to develop it in 2011. "Ideally, NASA should be able to buy heavy lift services to send payloads to the Moon—up to about ...

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