WASHINGTON — A U.S. military satellite built by York Space Systems launched to orbit June 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Partners will support the development of a spaceplane demonstrator, the first step toward Dassault’s vision for a reusable ...

In what seemed to be a development that came from nowhere, there's a new entrant into the reusable launch systems competition ...

Simon Cracker’s collection for next summer is an expression of exasperation with a world of uninformed “experts,” and as an ...

Elon Musk has long promised to put a fleet of driverless Tesla “robotaxis" on the roads, but fans and shareholders have been ...

Spacetech startup EtherealX claims to have learned from SpaceX's Falcon 9 failures and built its own technology to make medium-lift rockets fully reusable ...

As it turns out, launch vehicles are known as rockets simply due to the type of propulsion technology they employ. Rocket engines quickly burn fuel, which generates thrust in the form of hot gas.

After all, the Space Shuttle program was managed from Johnson Space Center, in southeastern Houston. All the astronauts who flew on the shuttle trained there. And the vehicle was operated out of ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

Some are replicas of iconic vehicles like the space shuttle and Apollo 11’s Saturn V. Estes manufactures the cardboard cylinder engines that power their model rockets in Penrose.

The Space Shuttle is made of up of the Orbiter Vehicle, the External Tank, and 2 Solid Rocket Boosters. Missions were launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There were five orbiters built ...

After spending a little over 10 months in space, the U.S. Space Force’s experimental spaceplane known as X-37B will attempt to use Earth’s atmospheric drag to change its orbit for the first time.