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But really, if you get right down to it, 2025’s commercial space advances will mainly be about rockets. Big rockets. Three of them. Rocket Lab’s Neutron follows some of the same design ...

NASA's flagship Europa Clipper spacecraft ... with round antenna with a man looking up at it and a huge rocket nose cone in the background. The $5 billion probe is on track to launch toward ...

An Australian aerospace firm said Friday it has scrubbed a historic attempt to send a locally developed rocket into orbit, citing a glitch in the nose cone protecting its payload—a jar of Vegemite.

The SpaceX rocket took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:11 a.m. ET. Tucked inside the rocket’s bullet-shaped nose cone were the two lunar landers — hailing from two ...

March 7 (UPI) --NASA on Friday rolled out the new ... a frustum housing motors and an aerodynamic nose cone fairing. The twin solid rocket booster assembly is 177 feet tall. While originally ...

Sometimes you try to get to outer space — but then the top of your rocket falls off. It happens. No, really: on Thursday, Australian startup Gilmour Space was forced to call off the inaugural launch ...