But after the first-stage booster successfully landed atop a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the landing legs — and the booster tipped ...

That programme, already facing environmental pushback, allows around 20 controlled rocket landings in Bahamian waters, the first of which took place successfully in Exuma Sound last month.

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The landing legs stuck up in the air and the melted body of the rocket hung off the side of the drone ship — making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers. The only ...

but used Rocket Lab’s Max Flight and Max Ground Data Software flight software “through all mission phases, including descent and landing”, the company said. Rocket Lab’s spacecraft ...

Rocket Lab, a company specializing in launch services and space systems, has acquired a barge which will be modified to specialized ocean landing platform for rockets returning to Earth.

Rocket Lab, a company specializing in launch services and space systems, has acquired a barge which will be modified to specialized ocean landing platform for rockets returning to Earth.Rocket Lab ...

Video of when SpaceX landed an orbital class rocket for the 200th time! Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: The Launch by Jon Bjork / courtesy of Epidemic ...

Thanks to SpaceX, landing rockets at sea has become commonplace. It's an approach that not only works, but also saves the private space company and its customers a lot of money. An approach so ...

("Rocket Lab" or "the Company"), a global leader in launch services and space systems, celebrated the successful Moon landing of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 on March 2 at 8:34 a.m ...