A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying ... Thanks for having me. IRA FLATOW: Let’s get right into the news about moons. This was a very busy week in space flight. On Thursday, a SpaceX test of its Starship ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, catching the booster back at the pad but losing contact with the ascending spacecraft.

Founded 25 years ago by Bezos, Blue Origin has been launching paying passengers to the edge of space since 2021, including ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 Starlink craft is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base Sunday, ...

A lot of hardware destined for space went to pieces this week, but to hear the rocket companies ... expected to have its first launch in 2020, has had nowhere near the breakneck R&D of the Falcons.

The spacecraft was supposed to soar across the Gulf of Mexico on a near ... the launch pad before being gripped by a pair of mechanical arms dubbed chopsticks. The 400-foot (123-meter) rocket ...

The launch however was not without some success. Before the ship loss, the company successfully demonstrated how its massive mechanical arms dubbed “chopsticks” caught the rocket booster at ...

The company plans to launch 27 Starlink satellites from its Falcon 9 rocket. According to SpaceX, it is targeting Monday, January 20 for a Falcon 9 launch of 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth ...

the 2nd Florida launch of 2025 SpaceX launched the Space Coast's third orbital rocket thus far in 2025 on Jan. 8, startling hundreds of birds into flight from trees and vegetation near pad 39A at KSC.

A minute earlier, SpaceX used the launch tower’s giant ... The 400-foot (123-meter) rocket had thundered away in late afternoon from Boca Chica Beach near the Mexican border.