The satellite is safely on its way to geostationary orbit, but one of the rocket's four strap-on side boosters fell to Earth in a populated area of Zhenyuan County in Guizhou province. Security ...

The rocket's first stage is accompanied by four 7.4-foot-wide (2.25 meters) boosters. These often have residual propellant, which means the stages explode on impact with the ground, while ...

The boosters will help support the remaining rocket components and the Orion spacecraft during final assembly of the Artemis II Moon rocket and provide more than 75% of the total Space Launch ...

Jan. 24 (UPI) --Assembly of the Artemis II moon rocket has reached its latest milestone with the stacking of the twin boosters' right forward center segment, NASA announced Friday. The most recent ...

This involves removing the rocket's Centaur upper stage, interstage adapter, and booster stage from its launch mount. ULA's facilities at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, can only ...

it overcame a malfunction in one of the rocket’s two solid rocket boosters, which lost its exhaust nozzle moments after liftoff. They are now fixing the problems with the boosters. The problem ...

What Happened: Following separation from the rocket’s second stage, the booster that supported the Starlink mission landed back on Earth, enabling the company to reuse it for another mission.

The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 1:53 p.m. EST (1853 GMT), less than 24 hours after another Starlink flight from California. A SpaceX rocket launched a new batch of Starlink satellites into orbit ...

Some rocket launches have an added bonus: The SpaceX boosters return to a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean or, occasionally, to the company's landing zone at Cape Canaveral. If a booster returns ...

Some rocket launches have an added bonus: The SpaceX boosters return to a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean or, occasionally, to the company's landing zone at Cape Canaveral. If a booster returns ...