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In the 1960s, engineers proposed the Sea Dragon, a 500-foot rocket capable of lifting 1.2 million pounds into orbit. Despite ...
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft successfully finished a test reboost of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday ...
A SpaceX cargo ship laden with 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of supplies launched to the International Space Station early Sunday morning (Aug. 24). A robotic Dragon capsule lifted off atop a SpaceX ...
They look like tiny dragons, they dine on Portuguese man-of-wars, they’re venomous and they’re turning up on Outer Banks beaches. The blue sea dragon, a type of venomous sea slug that lives in the ...
After setbacks during the last three launches of Starship, Elon Musk’s rocket splashed down in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday night. By Kenneth Chang After several disappointing failures, SpaceX’s ...
Welcome to Edition 8.07 of the Rocket Report! It's that time again: another test flight of SpaceX's massive Starship vehicle. In this week's report, we have a review of what went wrong on Flight 9 in ...
The most powerful rocket system ever constructed is headed for its next test — using a version of the vehicle that has been at the center of a series of explosive missteps and failures. SpaceX said it ...
Space enthusiasts will have to wait awhile longer to see SpaceX attempt the 10th launch of its massive Starship rocket, the largest type of rocket ever built. The company had been targeting a one-hour ...
SpaceX’s 403-foot Starship was set to lift off Sunday evening from the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas, marking its most ambitious test yet after a string of setbacks. But the launch of ...