A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the MTG-S1 weather satellite for EUMETSAT today (July 1), then came back down to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.

With its four sails towering 121 feet (37 meters) over its main deck, Canopée is a cargo ship with an unusual design, and a very unusual cargo. The sails have a combined surface area of almost ...

“The rocket landed instead of putting a hole in the ship, or tipping over, so we’re really excited about that,” said SpaceX founder Elon Musk at a press conference after the landing.

Six well-traveled adventurers rode Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket ship to go where they’ve never gone before: the edge of space. The New Shepard rocket lifted off from the Kent, Wash.-based ...

Designed from a landing ship meant to drop troops and supplies off at beachheads, the USS White River's 25 years of service didn't see the ship drop off a single soldier or vehicle into combat.

The two-stage rocket ship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 394 feet (120 meters), blasted off from the company's Starbase spaceport on the southern tip of Texas along the Gulf Coast ...

SpaceX plans to follow the Cygnus mission with launch of a Dragon cargo ship atop a Falcon 9 rocket on March 2. Launched from Cape Canaveral, the Dragon — carrying yet another load of supplies ...

The rocket's first stage came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes later as planned, touching down on the SpaceX drone ship "A Shortfall of Gravitas," which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. You may ...

In this case, "basement" is Ship's business end with six powerful Raptor rocket engines. The flight plan for Starship's eighth launch called for Ship to deploy four dummy payloads simulating ...

SpaceX's Starship rocket completed its first full flight and ocean splashdown. Surviving the ultrahot, high-stress plummet through Earth's atmosphere is a huge milestone. Starship is closer to ...

United Launch Alliance rolled its first new Vulcan rocket out of its Decatur, Ala., plant today for a ship ride down the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers to Cape Canaveral.