This company wants to reinvent the space rocket – as a space plane
by In the 1990s, NASA designed an experimental space plane that was meant to be a cost-effective alternative to expensive rockets. Called the X-33, it was …
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Chinese rocket breaks apart in low-Earth orbit, creating cloud of space debris, US Space Command says
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on exciting discoveries, scientific advances and more. One of China’s Long March …
Why Thai farmers are launching homemade rockets powered by gunpowder
With the domestic rocket mounted high above them, the crew pauses for a moment of quiet reflection at the base of the launcher. Then they …
SpaceX plans to launch 90 rockets from Vandenberg Space Force Base by 2026. Could that hurt the coast?
SpaceX plans to launch 90 rockets into space from a military base in Santa Barbara County by 2026, tripling the number of blasts threatening the …
SpaceX is about to make rocket launches 10 times cheaper with Starship, experts say
SpaceX’s Starship flew into space for the first time on March 14, 2024.SpaceX With its recent Starship mission, SpaceX is on the verge of reducing …
Why the space sector is ‘far away’
Rocket Lab (RKLB) will try to launch its first “Neutron” rocket by the end of 2024. NASA recently tapped Rocket Lab, along with 14 other …