Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn Rocket Reaches Orbit on First Test Flight
Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth.
2 privately built moon landers carried into space by SpaceX rocket
Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...
Why does a rocket have to go 25,000 mph to escape Earth?
For example, Jupiter is the most massive planet in our solar system. It’s so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths. So it ...
Why Planet Labs Stock Popped on Tuesday
On a flat to down day for the stock market, space company Planet Labs ( PL 4.90%) broke away from the pack and scored gains ...
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First photograph of Earth: How a WWII rocket made history
The first photograph of our planet taken from outer space dates back to 1946, when the Americans utilised a captured German ...
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V2 rocket's historic 1946 mission: First space shot of Earth
The first photograph of our planet taken from outer space dates back to 1946, when the Americans used a captured German V2 ...
Two Private Moon Landers Have Launched at Once: What to Know
Robotic vehicles from Firefly Aerospace of Texas and Ispace of Japan parted ways early Wednesday after being launched on the ...
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Rocket Lab takes jab at NASA with release of Mars sample return plan
The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.
SpaceX’s Lost Starship In 7th Test Echos NASA Setbacks In Space Race I
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.