By 10 p.m., the aircraft dropped the 57-foot-long Pegasus XL rocket 50 to 100 miles off the coast of Daytona Beach, giving it ample room to fire its solid rocket motor and begin lofting ICON to an ...

A German start-up’s orbital rocket spun out and crashed seconds after take-off Sunday, in a rare European test flight that the makers said “met its set goals.” CNN values your feedback 1.

United Launch Alliance fired off a next-generation Vulcan rocket Friday in the second of two "certification" test flights needed before the new launcher can be used to carry high-priority national ...

But the ICON mission, which NASA has been working on since 2013 and which has fallen within a $252 million cap for NASA costs, has struggled to get off the ground, with delays that total two years.

According to Hervé Gilibert, CTO of ArianeGroup, when an Ariane 5 rocket takes off, they start what’s called a flood — tons of water are poured at the foot of the launcher and onto the launchpad.

A German start-up’s orbital rocket spun out and crashed seconds after take-off Sunday, in a rare European test flight that the makers said “met its set goals.” ...