While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket performed a hot fire test in December 2024 and had several launch attempts in January 2025. At 320 feet tall, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is massive, standing ...

The first vertical launch of a rocket into orbit from European soil could take place from the UK's most northerly point this year after a German company won approval for spaceflight, regulators ...

The booster, meanwhile, flipped around, re-ignited several engines to reverse course and headed back toward Boca Chica where the unique mechanical arms on the rocket's launch gantry were open and ...

The rocket launched at 2:03 a.m. EST at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Advertisement As the rocket ascended, cheers could be heard erupting in the control room ...

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 36 from the Kennedy Space Center ... [+] on its maiden flight, at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch occurred at 2:03 a.m. EST ...

UK Approves First Vertical Rocket Launch Following the granting of the licence, German company RFA's 30 metre tall rocket has permission to take satellites into orbit.

14 maiden launch of the company’s New Glenn rocket ended with an upper stage payload successfully reaching orbit. The first stage, which was supposed to land gently on a downrange barge ...

SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from ...