The Chinese company LandSpace continues to develop the Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3), a two-stage reusable launch vehicle inspired by SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy. They achieved their first milestone in ...

The coming flight is not an isolated experiment but part of a coordinated effort to give China a domestic ecosystem of ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A small Colorado company has successfully tested a new type of propulsion technology that it believes could eventually enable low-cost, single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicles.

A full decade after SpaceX pioneered reusable rocketry with the first-ever successful landing of its Falcon 9 booster, the rest of the world is finally catching up. These few successes aren’t based on ...

AI use in launch vehicles is being studied as a way to support higher launch rates, improve reliability, manage maintenance, and coordinate space traffic as global access to orbit increases ...

SpaceX completed 167 orbital launches in 2025 using Falcon 9 rockets, setting a new annual record and accounting for about 85% of U.S. launches ...