Rocket Lab is targeting mid-2025 for the debut of its partially reusable Neutron rocket, with commercial launches to start in 2026. The company anticipates building from one Neutron flight in 2025 ...

A team of college kids at the University of Southern California broke the world record for the highest altitude reached by a rocket launched by amateurs — soaring a whopping 89 miles above the ...

A group of students broke the record for the highest altitude reached by an independently designed and built suborbital rocket, flying Aftershock II to 470,000 feet (143,256 meters) above Earth ...

Rocket Lab went public at the height of the SPAC boom in August 2021, when it merged with a special purpose acquisition company in a deal that valued the company at $4.1 billion, up nearly 200% ...

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The group's Aftershock II rocket reached an altitude of 470,400 feet last month. The University of Southern California's student rocketeers have done it again. The USC Rocket Propulsion Lab ...

“We really want it to act like a jet engine, but you want to have the thrust-to-weight ratio of a rocket engine, which is about 20 times better than a jet and that means you don't end up ...

This vision is becoming a reality thanks to researchers in Switzerland, who have successfully developed glow-in-the-dark wood. The whole concept of bioluminescent wood might seem like something ...

By Jonathan Rutherford Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, For I had wandered off from the straight path. Dante Alighieri The other ...

SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms. Unlike last month's success, the booster was directed to a splashdown in the Gulf ...

In the chilly hours of Wednesday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took its record-breaking 24th flight, delivering 24 of the company's Starlink satellites to orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket launched ...

The USC Rocket Propulsion Lab broke the previous altitude record for student/amateur rockets last month when their Aftershock II vehicle soared an incredible 89.09 miles above the Earth's surface.