The largest, most powerful launch vehicle ever built is meant to be a key part of SpaceX’s plans to send humans to Mars—and ...

Get live updates on the Starship rocket launch from SpaceX's Starbase headquarters in Texas. See what time it launches, where ...

Although the flight did not end as well as SpaceX officials hoped, the company made some tangible progress Tuesday. Most ...

SpaceX's newly commissioned reentry vehicle will only push the International Space Station (ISS) into Earth's atmosphere some 12 to 18 months after the complex "drifts down" from its normal orbit.

Last June, NASA announced it had picked SpaceX to design the United States Deorbit Vehicle (USDV), with ... tons — half of human made reentry mass into the atmosphere in 2019, a third of the ...

Friction with the atmosphere introduces drag ... there’s still not enough time during reentry for the vehicle to slow down to a safe enough velocity not to crash. So, the engineers resort ...

A piece of a Soviet vehicle that ... is indeed a Soviet reentry capsule, it would be equipped with a substantial heat shield, meaning it “might well survive Earth atmosphere entry and hit ...