The H3 is a relatively new vehicle, with last month’s launch marking the eighth flight of Japan’s flagship rocket. The ...

Japan’s H3 rocket suffered engine trouble on December 22, 2025, and failed to place a Japanese navigation satellite into ...

Facepalm: Chinese startups are attempting to emulate what SpaceX and Blue Origin achieved nearly a decade ago – the ability to land and reuse rockets. Although the road has been bumpy, at least one ...

Preparations for launch of the sixth Kinetica-1 rocket in December 2024 at Jiuquan spaceport. HELSINKI — A Chinese commercial Kinetica-1 solid rocket failed late Thursday, with the launch attempt ...

A space startup in China almost pulled off a vertical landing test of its prototype rocket, but the launch vehicle experienced an anomaly at the very last moment, causing it to crash onto the landing ...

The Falcon 9 rockets have played a pivotal role in SpaceX's journey in space exploration as a private space company. The two-stage, reusable Falcon 9 rockets are SpaceX's second rocket after the ...

The Starship‘s many engines are isolated from each other, preventing the risk of one engine failure causing failure of all as in the case of the Soviet Union’s N1 rocket, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on ...

Space insurance traces its roots to 1965, when Lloyd’s of London underwrote the first satellite policy for Intelsat I, known as “Early Bird.” Although the mission succeeded and no claim was filed, it ...

Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers as single, sculpted pieces of metal. Instead of treating 3D printing as a ...