One was returning the giant 230-foot tall “Booster” first stage back to the launch ... a backpack: Estes is a storied company dating back to the 1950s, known for its model rockets for hobbyists.

Poised to liftoff from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36, Blue Origin's 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket seeks to perform a fully operational mission. If successful, the rocket will be certified to ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket performed a hot fire test in December 2024 and had several launch attempts in January 2025. At 320 feet tall, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is massive, standing ...

LONDON - Britain gave the green light to Rocket Factory Augsburg to launch satellites from a site in northern Scotland on Thursday, potentially paving the way for regular commercial space missions ...

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 ...

Industry news site Spaceflight Now points out that this made Blue Origin the first company “to successfully reach orbit on their first launch with a new orbital-class rocket in the new era of ...

The rocket had seen numerous delays and setbacks, and a previous launch was abandoned when unwanted ice formed in some of the rocket engine pipes. Around 13 minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s ...

The descending booster hovered over the launch pad before being gripped by a pair of mechanical arms dubbed chopsticks. The 400-foot (123-meter) rocket thundered away in late afternoon from Boca ...

Despite the spacecraft being lost, SpaceX did manage to successfully complete the rocket booster return and catch at the launch pad for the second time ever. The booster was caught with the pair ...

The debut flight of New Glenn, the company’s first rocket powerful enough to launch satellites to space, took off after 2 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ...

Debris from Space X rockets returning to Earth has forced airlines to delay some flights in recent weeks. This has been a yearslong problem: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch in 2018 impacted 563 ...

Musk plans to launch actual Starlinks on Starships before moving on to other satellites and, eventually, crews. It was the seventh test flight for the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket.