The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.

The capsule, carrying 30 science payloads, landed in the desert 10 minutes after liftoff, slowed by parachutes and a final nudge from its retrorockets. Blue Origin builds and tests its rocket engines ...

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Launch recap: Scroll down to read live updates from the launch of two lunar landers atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. NASA's uncrewed payload mission to the moon ...

That places it between SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets in terms of payload capacity, at 22 and 64 tons respectively. New Glenn features two stages. A booster provides most of the thrust to ...

This latest success saw a Falcon 9 rocket return to earth and touchdown on a SpaceX drone ship, while its payload of 27 Starlink satellites was sent on into orbit. The journey to the upper ...

With the payload being in the Group 12 satellites, the Falcon 9 rocket traveled on a Southeast trajectory. When is the next Florida launch?Is there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX, Blue Origin ...

SpaceX reportedly charges just under $70 million for rockets that can carry 22 tons of payload to Low Earth Orbit. Simply put, it's impossible for any other heavy-launch rocket to compete with ...

Maxed out for an expendable launch, a Falcon 9 rocket ship can carry at most 22 metric tons of payload to low Earth orbit (LEO), and it costs $69.8 million per launch. In contrast, Blue Origin ...