The U.S. Air Force announced on Monday that it intends to build two landing pads on a remote island in the Pacific. It wants ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to achieving that dream.

One in Four Chance Per Year That Rocket Junk Will Enter Busy Airspace Feb. 5, 2025 — There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a ...

Robert Zubrin's Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket that uses known physics and engineering . There are ...

Another Silicon Valley investor is getting into the rocket business. Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has taken a controlling interest in the Long Beach, California-based Relativity Space.

The purchase of a drone barge that it will use for remote-controlled landings of its new Neutron rocket ship. The development of a new satellite designed for mass manufacture and easy packing inside.

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.

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 ...

Like previous missions, the intention was for the upper portion of the rocket to go on a partial lap around the Earth before splashing down in a controlled landing roughly an hour later in the ...