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Following stage separation, the rocket's first-stage booster landed atop the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the ...
The International Space Station got more international Thursday morning with the arrival of astronauts from three countries ...
Joining Whitson are first-time fliers Shubhanshu Shukla from India, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland, and Tibor Kapu from Hungary. The mission brings a return to human spaceflight for these ...
Live updates from the launch of the Ax-4 mission. The long delayed Axiom Space Mission 4 crew lifted off at 2:31 a.m. on June ...
SpaceX, which is famous for pioneering offshore rocket landings, has also flirted with sea-based launches. The company went so far as to purchase two oil rigs for $3.5 million apiece in 2020.
While you might dismiss the idea as entirely science fiction, it almost wasn't. The Sea Dragon, a super-heavy lift launch vehicle, was a real concept under consideration with NASA in the 1960s.
China has completed its first sea-based rocket launch of 2025, successfully deploying ten CentiSpace-01 satellites from the Smart Dragon-3 rocket near Haiyang. This mission underscores China's ...
A Smart Dragon-3 rocket carrying the satellite group CentiSpace 01 blasts off from the sea near the city of Haiyang in east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 13, 2025.
HM-12 flew the MH-53E Sea Dragon 160633 “Dragon 437” to Titusville’s Warbird Museum. Its the first of its kind to be displayed in a museum. On Oct. 16, 2024, Helicopter Mine Countermeasures ...
The Crew-9 Dragon docked successfully at the ISS, but the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched it into orbit reportedly experienced an issue after it detached from the Dragon capsule.
A Chinese Smart Dragon-3 rocket launched from a sea-based platform on Sept. 23, carrying eight remote-sensing satellites to orbit.
China launched a Smart Dragon-3 carrier rocket from the waters near the city of Haiyang in east China's Shandong Province on Tuesday, placing eight satellites into planned orbit. The rocket is ...