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 ...

Sometimes you try to get to outer space — but then the top of your rocket ... because the nose cones don't separate properly. One of the most infamous examples occurred during NASA's Gemini ...

But for now, that moment is paused – an issue with the payload fairing (the rocket’s nose cone) has delayed lift ... in US government funding through NASA programs designed to cultivate ...

Boom Supersonic's goal is to design and manufacture a supersonic airliner, which it calls Overture. [Courtesy: Boom ...

A protective nose cone would have ... What Faget loved about the design was its simplicity. For the astronaut to return to Earth, only one event—firing the retro-rockets in the right direction ...

However, these rockets ... design, wireless internet, and tablet interfaces for the crew. Unfortunately, the Starliner has suffered setbacks due to technical errors during uncrewed test flights ...

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.