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Rocket Lab's pioneering suborbital launch last month conducted hypersonic tests for the U.S. military, the company has revealed. The mission in question lifted off on Nov. 24 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Virginia's Wallops Island. It e...
The catch requires thousands of criteria to be met, the company said. If it hadn't been ready, the booster would have diverted from the return trajectory to instead splash down off the coast in the Gulf of Mexico. "We accept no compromises when it comes to ensuring the safety of the pu...
Firefly has been in the news quite a bit recently, and not because of Alpha: On March 2, the company's Blue Ghost moon lander pulled off the second-ever soft lunar touchdown by a private vehicle. Blue Ghost and its 10 NASA science instruments performed well, operating until...
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SLS will launch the next generation of deep space operations, including Artemis missions, on and around the moon. It was initially slated to take off in November but has run behind schedule. RELATED: NASA targeting February for launch of first moon rocket since Apollo mission NASA ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on the USSF-124 mission for the U.S. Space Force and Missile Defense Agency in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 14, 2024. Joe Skipper | Reuters Falcon 9 has been on an unrivaled run of success for nearly a decade, chocking up more than 300 consec...
The rocket took off from its launch pad at the Wenchang center at 8pm and put a Yuanzheng 1A restartable upper stage into space. The Yuanzheng 1A released six payloads into their preset orbits. The Yuanzheng 1A is a spacecra...
The first stage booster, called the Super Heavy, successfully lifted the rocket off the launch pad. But it failed to separate from the rest of the rocket as planned. So the company decided to end the test, resulting in the explosion. Musk said it appeared to be a “failure of the upper...
Losing the booster isn’t a huge setback. Initially, Starship continued moving along just fine after breaking away from Super Heavy. A plume forms as SpaceX's Starship separates from its booster during a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Saturday, November 18. ...