In the continuing saga of billionaires and big rockets comes Amazon founder ... it is about the size of NASA's mega moon rocket, the Space Launch System. Years in the making, the commercial ...

It contains a fire control computer that integrates the vehicle and rocket launching operations. Without leaving the cab, the crew of three (driver, gunner and section chief) can fire up to twelve ...

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin has entered the rocket big leagues. At 2:03 a.m. Eastern ... its seven engines and climbed atop a cloud of fire and steam for the first time, roaring into ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX suspects a fire is to blame for his 400-foot-tall ... oxygen fuel may have built up pressure in the colossal rocket’s cavity during liftoff and sparked a fire.

Industry news site Spaceflight Now points out that this made Blue Origin the first company “to successfully reach orbit on their first launch with a new orbital-class rocket in the new era of ...

For Dr V Narayanan, the new chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), this is a trial by fire, as it is the first big launch under his command. The rocket and the satellite have ...