SpaceX is targeting Friday to launch a telecommunications satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. The Thuraya 4 mission is expected to take off at 8:27 p.m. A backup opportunity is ...

With the launch Friday and another Falcon 9 flight Monday (this one with a booster on its 15th mission), SpaceX has launched ...

An unspecified issue forced an abort just as the Falcon's Merlin engines were igniting. "Standing down from tonight’s Falcon 9 launch," SpaceX stated in an update posted on the X social media ...

Impulse Space has designed its Helios space transport vehicle to deliver variety of payloads quickly to orbits above Lower ...

Three Falcon 9 rockets – each having nine Merlin engines of power —gives the Falcon Heavy vehicle the power of 27 Merlin ...

Private companies take the lead in space exploration in 2024, with Intuitive Machines landing on the moon and Space X's Falcon 9 launching Starlink satellites.

That's why rockets have to carry tanks of both fuel and oxidizer. The SpaceX Falcon 9's Merlin engines use rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1) fuel with liquid oxygen as the oxidizer. NASA's Space Launch ...

SpaceX dominates this week’s launch manifest with three Falcon 9 missions and the seventh flight of its Starship rocket. The ...

Space is open for business, and with a entrepreneur astronaut tapped to lead NASA, the promise of startups and small private space companies may be a hallmark of 2025. And, of course, giant rockets.

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...