Debris scatters on June 26, 2025, during a static fire test of a new solid rocket motor at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah. The motor is supposed to be used in later Artemis moon missions. A test ...
When a slender white booster dropped out of the night sky and stood itself upright on a Florida landing pad, it did more than pull off a stunt. It rewrote the basic economics and psychology of getting ...
NASA’s Space Launch System appears to have a finite shelf life. The Trump administration wants to cancel it after just three launches, while the preliminary text of a bill making its way through ...
Blue Origin took crucial steps toward its space-development goals on Thursday, launching its orbital rocket for the first time with cargo and landing the rocket’s booster. The Jeff Bezos-owned company ...
Welcome to Edition 8.20 of the Rocket Report! For the second week in a row, Blue Origin dominated the headlines with news about its New Glenn rocket. After a stunning success November 13 with the ...
The lower half of the New Glenn rocket set down on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean after lifting a small NASA Mars mission to space. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported on the first flight of the ...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has landed the booster of its New Glenn mega-rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean on just its second attempt — making it the second company to perform such a feat, ...
Wendy Whitman Cobb is affiliated with the US School of Advanced Air and Space Studies. Her views are her own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Defense or any of its ...