The company explained that the rocket misjudged its landing altitude and the engine shut down prematurely. It continued to stay in a vertical position and slammed into the landing site.

Once certified, the rocket should be capable of carrying 4,400 pounds (2,000 kilograms) to low Earth orbit, and an upscaled version could lift 17,000 pounds (8,000 kilograms).

That’s not always an easy proposition, though, as this three-year effort to nail a SpaceX-style vertical landing aptly shows. First of all, hats off to high schooler [Aryan Kapoor] from JRD ...

Deep Blue's Nebula-1 rocket has a diameter of 3.35 meters (11 feet) which is slightly smaller than SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket (12 feet in diameter). It will be powered by kerosene-liquid oxygen ...

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 ...

BEIJING—Chinese efforts at developing reusable space launchers have progressed as far as demonstrating control technology in a vertical landing of a small test rig. The guidance and control ...

Aviation Teen’s model rocket sticks a SpaceX-inspired vertical landing It only took three years to build. Andrew Paul Jul 10, 2024 2:51 PM EDT ...