The Sea Dragon, a declassified 1960s project, was a massive 500-foot-tall rocket designed to launch from the ocean, carrying huge payloads into space at a fraction of the cost.

Following stage separation, the rocket's first-stage booster landed atop the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the ...

Guan Hongren, the Smart Dragon 3's chief designer, said the rocket model has become ready for mass production and large-scale launch tasks. Before the latest mission, China had performed six sea-based ...

Before it, China had performed five sea-based launches — four by the Long March 11 rocket and one by the Smart Dragon 3, which transported 37 satellites to their orbit. Both types are products of the ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just launched an advanced European weather satellite and aced its landing on a ship at sea. The ...

Houston-based Axiom Space launched its fourth crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) early Wednesday (June ...

Live updates from the launch of the Ax-4 mission. The long delayed Axiom Space Mission 4 crew lifted off at 2:31 a.m. on June ...

The 26.8-meter stainless steel rocket, weighing 57 tonnes, flew for 125 seconds and reached an altitude of 2.5 kilometers before successfully landing vertically on the sea surface near Shandong ...

On Florida's Space Coast, the number of orbital launches has skyrocketed to annual records of 31 in 2021, 57 in 2022, 72 in 2023, and 93 last year.

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The rocket, which is in development, has yet to reach orbit in any of its nine flight tests beginning in April 2023. What is the SpaceX Dragon? Capsule is vital to US spaceflight ...