Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

Watch a Long March 10 rocket launch a crewed spacecraft and lander to the moon in this animation from the China National ...

we can confirm we did lose the ship. "It looks like we lost contact a little under eight and a half minutes into the flight." Image: SpaceX's rocket made the test flight from a launch site in Boca ...

The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) has announced that the People’s Republic of China is scheduled to launch a Long March 8A rocket on Saturday. The launch is expected to take place between 5:53 PM and ...

Listen to Story Long March 3B rocket successfully lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center Shortly after its ascent, the spent stage re-entered the Earth's atmosphere It crashed in a rural ...

Credit: OroraTech WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab announced Jan. 22 a contract to launch a set of wildfire-monitoring satellites for German company OroraTech on a short turnaround. Rocket Lab said it ...

President Donald Trump's inauguration speech emphasized the priority of a mission to Mars, which in turn boosted space-related stocks including Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab announced the successful ...

In Long Beach, a crowd of several dozen people bundled up against the bitter cold to walk in the annual MLK Commemorative March along West Park Avenue to the MLK Community Center on Riverside ...

From this perspective, No. 2 American rocket launcher Rocket Lab still has a long way to go to catch up to No. 1 SpaceX. A more interesting question, though, is how Rocket Lab manages to "beat ...

Longxing-2 is thought to be a test article for the Long March 12A reusable launcher being developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST). The rocket was designed to replicate ...

At the same time, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured the launch in a long exposure from the International Space Station (ISS) some 250 miles above Earth. The result is a rocket-launch photo unlike ...

The last time a Starship upper stage failed was in March ... rocket into orbit for the first time. The Starship upper stage, two metres taller than previous versions, was a "new generation ship ...