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Stoke Space successfully tested its Hopper vehicle, showcasing innovative designs for its second stage rocket while aiming for full rocket reusability.

During a 15-second test flight, Stoke Space launched Hopper2 and landed the prototype upper stage in what is a major milestone in the company’s plans to develop a fully reusable rocket.

TUKWILA, Wash. — Thirty years after the first flight of a pioneering reusable rocket ship known as the Delta Clipper Experimental, or DC-X, a commercial venture is aiming to bring its legacy to life in the Seattle area. Even its name — New Frontier Aerospace — is a callback to the earlier days of America’s space effort, going back to John F. Kennedy references to outer space as part of his “New Frontier.” “We’re sort of like the grandson of...

Chinese launch company Galactic Energy announced in late July that it used a small test vehicle propelled by a jet engine to test software for landing rockets.

China's moon rocket inches a step further in development, as the country test fires new rocket engine.

On Wednesday, June 19, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 orbit after Tuesdays launch was aborted. | World News

A private Chinese company launched into orbit on Wednesday the world's first methane-liquid oxygen rocket, beating U.S. rivals in sending what could become the next generation of launch vehicles into space. The Zhuque-2 carrier rocket blasted off at 9 a.m. (0100 GMT) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and completed its flight according to plan, state media reported. It was the second attempt by Beijing-based LandSpace, one of the earliest firms in China's comme...

SpaceX is topping its own goals for the Falcon 9, now can be reused twice as much. SpaceX remains one of the most profitable companies in the private space industry, and this is also strengthened by its development of the Falcon 9, now seeing twice as much reusability for flights.

Spanish company PLD Space said it plans its first test of a suborbital reusable rocket on Wednesday, as it seeks to put small satellites into space and capture a slice of a potential trillion-dollar market. If successful, the launch from a military aerospace research centre in Huelva, in southern Spain, will be the first in Western Europe by a private company. Plans by companies around the world to deploy thousands of internet-beaming satellites in the next few years have spawned a wave of new r

This is the first time that a winged body has been released mid-air by a helicopter and carried out an autonomous landing