As new rockets and space companies arrive on the scene, this workhorse of a rocket, the Falcon 9, remains the most common rocket launched from Florida launch pads. It debuted 15 years ago this week, ...

Abstract: Trajectory optimization of a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) has a highly nonlinear model and complex constraints. Therefore, it is difficult to deal with polygonal no-fly zone (PNFZ) ...

which covers the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. This opens the possibility of Starship flying future NASA science missions — that is once Starship reaches a successful orbital flight. "NASA has ...

Depending on weather and cloud cover, a SpaceX rocket launch near NASA Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral may be seen in ...

Star Wars Celebration revealed some exciting new details for The Mandalorian and Grogu-themed update headed to Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run alongside the new movie, including that Engineers ...

Update: Launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 with the Intelsat 40e satellite and NASA's TEMPO instrument at 12:30 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The first-stage booster successfully landed ...

the Space Force will move a future GPS payload from SpaceX's Falcon Heavy back to ULA's Vulcan. That means the next three GPS satellites will fly on Vulcan. The Space Force compensated ULA for ...

Hence, the regulation mandating heavy vehicles to come to a complete stop before making right turns is crucial in ensuring intersection safety. However, the current trajectory planning methods ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – A Falcon 9 launch carrying 26 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit is scheduled for liftoff at 6:43 a.m. on Friday, May 16 with a backup launch ...

The company is on track still to best the 134 launches it performed among Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets in 2024 across all launch sites. This was the 415th time SpaceX has used a previously ...

The rocket launched into cloudy blue Florida skies. It'll be a late lunch for SpaceX mission operators at Cape Canaveral due to the mid-day launch of another stack of Starlink satellites.