A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom scientists, who say it could slash travel time to Mars to one or two ...

Here’s how it works. Rocket Lab launched five "Internet of Things" satellites on Saturday (Feb. 8). A 59-foot-tall (18 meters) Electron rocket carrying five spacecraft for the French company ...

Rocket Lab launched 16 rockets in 2024, 60% more than the 10 it launched in 2023. Rival SpaceX launched far more rockets -- 138 -- but its growth rate from 2023 was slower. Fully-loaded Rocket Lab ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket visible as a streak of light from bottom right to top left. Don Pettit / NASA Blue Origin launched its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for the first time last week ...

SpaceX halted the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday with 11 seconds to spare after a plane allegedly flew into restricted airspace near the launchpad. The California exhibition set to send ...

While the midair explosion of the SpaceX's Starship rocket made for an unsuccessful flight test it also made for an unforgettable optical experience in the Caribbean. The launch marked the seventh ...

DETROIT, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), the Detroit-based fintech platform company consisting of mortgage, real estate and personal finance businesses, today announced ...

The tests involved two 120-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engines and one 18-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engine. The institute noted that this marks a major advancement in the country ...

Florida's Space Coast reached double digits by hosting 10 orbital rocket launches during January — a speedy cadence that, if it continues, would easily surpass last year's annual record of 93 ...

The company is now focused on building the RFA ONE rocket's first stage with nine Helix staged-combustion engines, and then conducting a full hot fire test on the launch pad at SaxaVord Spaceport ...

SpaceX's gigantic Starship rocket has been "lost" just minutes into ... the company said it had lost contact with Starship as the engines went out. A host on SpaceX's livestream soon confirmed ...