While Elon Musk’s spaceflight company repeated a spectacular catch of its powerful booster stage, the upper stage experienced ...

With that in mind, Rocket Lab this week urged NASA to immediately launch an official commercial competition for MSR, and open up the project to competing bids. As Rocket Lab argues, other ...

In what appears to be a jab at NASA, Rocket Lab this week unveiled its own plan to return rock and dust samples the space agency has been collecting from Mars’ Jezero Crater since 2021.

In the first image from November 2022, the underwater mud volcano is solidly beneath sea level, with no discernable land ...

Estes Rockets is the country’s biggest manufacturer of model rockets for hobbyists, and it’s stockpiling parts from China.

which would carry them to orbit and rendezvous with yet another rocket for return to Earth, where yet another lander would return the samples to NASA and the European Space Agency for study.

But NASA is exploring some ambitious concepts that ... to squeeze something that massive into the narrow confines of a rocket. Even fully compacted, the radiator would be too big and unwieldy.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander, a spacecraft commissioned by NASA, enjoys its SpaceX ride before the rocket releases it into space. Credit: SpaceX / Firefly Aerospace On its 100th ...

The Gemini program was NASA’s second human spaceflight program, following the Mercury missions and paving the way for the ...

16, according to FLORIDA TODAY's rocket launch calendar for January 2025. There will be a three-hour launch window. Bookmark this link: Is there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX, Blue Origin, NASA ...

Rocket Lab’s Second Reentry Class Spacecraft for Varda Operating on Orbit Supporting Payloads for Air Force Research Lab and NASA Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the ...