The methane-fueled rocket was expected to fly to an altitude of 75 kilometers (about 246,000 ... replicating the maneuvers required to recover a reusable booster like the first stage of SpaceX's ...

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 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 ...

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 177-foot-tall twin solid rocket boosters provide more than 75% of the total SLS thrust during liftoff, the agency says. Advertisement The timeline for the delay-plagued Artemis moon landing ...

What Happened: Following separation from the rocket’s second stage, the booster that supported the ... No one would buy a single-use airplane, car, or even bicycle! You’d need to tow another ...

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 ...

"Full duration static fire test of Super Heavy," SpaceX posted to X on Sunday, Feb. 9, with a set of photos from the pre-flight booster test. The next steps will involve this particular rocket's ...

An airplane pilot captured incredible ... According to SpaceX, the rocket carried two Maxar earth-imaging satellites. “This was the fourth flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this ...