Analysts say it marks the largest leap in wing-in-ground effect (WIG) aircraft design since the Cold War, when the Soviet ...

Following stage separation, the rocket's first-stage booster landed atop the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the ...

Live updates from Saturday morning’s SpaceX Starlink 10-34 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space ...

The International Space Station got more international Thursday morning with the arrival of astronauts from three countries ...

Live updates from the launch of the Ax-4 mission. The long delayed Axiom Space Mission 4 crew lifted off at 2:31 a.m. on June ...

SpaceX, which is famous for pioneering offshore rocket landings, has also flirted with sea-based launches. The company went so far as to purchase two oil rigs for $3.5 million apiece in 2020.

While you might dismiss the idea as entirely science fiction, it almost wasn't. The Sea Dragon, a super-heavy lift launch vehicle, was a real concept under consideration with NASA in the 1960s.

China has completed its first sea-based rocket launch of 2025, successfully deploying ten CentiSpace-01 satellites from the Smart Dragon-3 rocket near Haiyang. This mission underscores China's ...

A Smart Dragon-3 rocket carrying the satellite group CentiSpace 01 blasts off from the sea near the city of Haiyang in east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 13, 2025.

The Crew-9 Dragon docked successfully at the ISS, but the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched it into orbit reportedly experienced an issue after it detached from the Dragon capsule.

A Chinese Smart Dragon-3 rocket launched from a sea-based platform on Sept. 23, carrying eight remote-sensing satellites to orbit.