SpaceX's 7th Starship flight didn't achieve all it set out to For the first time, SpaceX flew Starship with a reused Raptor rocket engine. The Super Heavy booster runs on 33 Raptor engines.
The more than 400-foot rocket, powered by 33 Raptor engines, appeared to lift off successfully at 4:37 p.m. CT from SpaceX's launchpad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. But minutes ...
That, obviously, did not stick: delays with development of the rocket’s engine, the BE-4, and other setbacks shifted the schedule significantly. It should be noted, however, that Blue Origin has ...
A rocket engine explodes during test at Shetland spaceport Credit: BBC Rob Bishton, the chief executive of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, said the greenlight launches “a new era for aerospace ...
Jeff Bezos’ space company launched its massive new rocket for the first time, aiming to advance the Amazon founder’s lifelong space-exploration ambitions. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket ...
Lumbering off the launch pad from a billowing fiery cloud, Blue Origin's mighty 321-foot-tall New Glenn rocket hurtled into ... target orbit after a pair of engine burns. "Getting to orbit is ...
The successful flight to orbit of the Amazon founder’s powerful rocket suggests it could grow into a credible competitor with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. transcript New Glenn, named after the ...
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 second stage reached orbit, which has been a goal ...
The gargantuan rocket blasted off from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and flight test facility on the Gulf Coast at 5:37 p.m. Eastern Time, firing up 33 methane-burning Raptor engines ...
A company behind a rocket engine which exploded during a test at the UK's new spaceport in Shetland could still be the first in Europe to carry out vertical launches into orbit. German firm Rocket ...
But the company failed to land New Glenn's main rocket engine, or booster, onto a platform in the Atlantic Ocean. It had hoped that the booster would be reusable for future launches but after ...
Close to 10 years after it first sent a rocket to space, Blue Origin put one into Earth's orbit when it launched its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral at 2:03 a.m. Eastern Thursday.