Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

Large crowds lined Space Coast beaches to see the rocket lift off on its maiden flight. Isabelle Paradise told Eyewitness News, “Seeing it go off into the clouds. That was probably the coolest ...

Several commercial flights appeared to have to divert their courses to avoid debris from the exploding rocket in and around the Caribbean region. The spacecraft was supposed to soar across the Gulf of ...

A late-night rocket launch is potentially scheduled to lift off Wednesday − and depending on weather and visibility, there could be a show in the sky above Volusia County. Weather permitting ...

Europe had aimed to get the second flight off the ground before the end of that ... notably experienced an issue with the rocket's upper stage that prevented it from performing a final deorbit ...

And Rocket Lab's advantages in this area may be growing. Recall that later this year, the company will introduce its new medium-lift Neutron rocket into service. Payload notes that Neutron is ...

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)(Eric Gay / AP) SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rocket Lab launched five "Internet of Things" satellites on Saturday (Feb. 8). A 59-foot ...

Its seven BE-4 engines thundered for miles under cloudy skies on its second lift-off attempt this week. Hundreds of employees at the company's headquarters in Kent, Washington, and at its rocket ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket visible as a streak of light from bottom right to top left. Don Pettit / NASA Blue Origin launched its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for the first time last week ...

Credit: Blue Origin The U.S. has entered a new era of heavy-lift launch—one of choice. The inaugural flight of privately owned Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket also kicks off what promises to be ...