Elon Musk’s SpaceX is still causing flight delays years after a single rocket launch disrupted 563 planes
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch in 2018 caused 4,645 minutes, or more than 77 hours, of commercial flight delays.
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Jeff Bezos’ “New Glenn” rocket lifted off in Florida
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin has tested its new, powerful rocket "New Glenn" for the first time. The ...
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SpaceX launches 1st Falcon 9 rocket of 2025, sends Thuraya 4 communications satellite to orbit (video)
This was the 20th flight and recovery for this Falcon 9 first stage booster, and SpaceX's 341st recovery of an orbital-class ...
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On a long-dormant pad in Florida, a rocket that could challenge SpaceX’s dominance is poised to launch
Rocket companies also typically take a conservative approach to the first liftoff, launching dummy payloads such as hunks of metal or, as was the case with SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy debut in 2018 ...
Two privately-built moon landers share a ride to space atop a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket
Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...
Rocket Report: China launches refueling demo; DoD’s big appetite for hypersonics
Welcome to Edition 7.26 of the Rocket Report! Let's pause and reflect on how far the rocket business has come in the last 10 ...
Bezos vs Musk spacewar: Amazon boss to send a Swiss Army knife-like rocket today that's 2 times heavier than Space X' Falcon 9
New Glenn, a new rocket built by Blue Origin, is set for its debut launch on Monday. If successful, it could position the ...
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 ...