An overview of how SpaceX Falcon 9 supports satellite launches and crew missions to low Earth orbit through reusable design, NASA partnerships, and structured launch operations.

NASA vs SpaceX rockets compared on cost, technology, and performance, revealing how reusability and innovation reshape modern spaceflight missions.

Proton rocket returns to flight. After a nearly three-year break, a Russian Proton rocket flew again with the Elektro-L No. 5 meteorological satellite from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, Russian Space Web ...

A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket carrying classified Space Force payloads suffered a booster problem but apparently ...

Two leading US aerospace companies, GE Aerospace and Lockheed Martin, are joining forces to create a rotating detonation ramjet engine (RDDJ). Despite a number of advantages of RDDJs—for example, the ...

Today on FRAME, we discover what goes on behind the scenes as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) assembles rockets like the ...

Unlike cryptic hashtags or branded slogans, “Rocket” is a universally understood term. Yet its sudden surge shows how familiar words can ...

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo. The agency’s new era of spaceflight comes with a few parts from its past, ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and other world defense ministers convene for the 31st Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 15, 2025. Credit: U.S. Department of ...

ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Astra today announced it has shipped 110 satellite engine systems since January 1, 2025, surpassing a key operating milestone set when the company went private in ...

Matt Dawson, an engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facility in Redmond, Wash., processes a set of MR-80 rocket engines for NASA’s Perseverance rover mission in advance of its launch in 2020. (Aerojet ...

Work on the production floor at Rocket Lab’s Engine Development Complex in Long Beach halted on Friday afternoon, Jan. 9, as more than 200 employees cheered and welcomed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...