A Chinese state-owned aerospace company unveiled a fully reusable design for its Long March 9 booster at the country's largest airshow in Zhuhai this week, saying it would rival the heavy-lift systems ...

The rocket had initially been tapped to launch a pair of probes for NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics ...

China’s main space contractor has unveiled a fully reusable rocket concept, reminiscent of SpaceX’s Starship, designed to support its grandest ambitions for space. The new concept ...

The Long March 9 super heavy-lift rocket made an appearance at a major airshow recently—and looks awfully familiar.

Since then, the Asian country has been revising the design of this rocket, named Long March 9, in response to the development of reusable rockets by SpaceX. As of two years ago, China had ...

Shares of SpaceX rival Rocket Lab USA soared to an all-time high Wednesday after the company reported results that topped estimates and announced a new deal with a commercial satellite constellation ...

The design for the 114m-long rocket features a reusable first stage with 30 YF-215 engines that use methane and liquid oxygen as fuel, similar to the Raptor engines of SpaceX. Long March 9 design ...

Like a lot of competitors in the global launch industry, Russia for a long time dismissed the prospects of a reusable first stage for a rocket. As late as 2016, an official with the Russian agency ...

However, a handful of resilient companies survived that industrywide wash-out. Rocket Lab produces partly reusable rockets for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S ...

Merritt Island, United States - November 04, 2024 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a cargo spacecraft launches from Launch ...

Building rockets and launching them reliably into space is even harder. Only one private company has managed to do this at scale, SpaceX, with its huge reusable rockets and landing pads.