"The trajectoryis nearly vertical . . . straight up, straight down," Lai told the audience. "Wewill reenter vertically and restart the engines and do a powered landing on thepropulsion module." ...

At around 8:40 p.m. EST, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket returned to the ground to an uproarious crowd, cheering the safe landing after months of unsuccessful attempts.

Nebula-1 is 11 feet wide, only slightly smaller than the Falcon 9 rocket which stands tall at 12 feet in diameter. The rocket has been made with the aim to carry 2,000 kilogrammes of weight to low ...

A Long March 5B rocket, carrying China's Mengtian science module, the final module of the Tiangong space station, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan ...

Prior to landing, the booster is able to re-ignite the engine to decelerate down to 7 km/h (4.4 mph), allowing for a gentle vertical landing. “Full reuse is a game changer, and we can’t wait ...

Chinese space startup DeepBlue Aerospace conducted a near-flawless flight test of its first vertical launch and vertical landing rocket on Sunday. However, the Nebula-1 reusable rocket failed the ...

China recently carried out a successful rocket vertical landing test at sea, with developers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) saying Thursday that the technology would lay the foundation ...

But the BE-3 rocket also began its own controlled descent, when its own rockets fired at 5,000 feet. It then managed to go on to make a neat, vertical landing, touching the ground at a sedate 4.4mph.

At around 8:40 p.m. EST, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket returned to the ground to an uproarious crowd, cheering the safe landing after months of unsuccessful attempts. This was also the first ...