During an important rocket test, some students decided to strap some cheese onto one of the craft's landing legs — and got a crucial lesson in physics. As Interesting Engineering reports ...

South Africa's UKZN, in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, receives $108,000 from the UK Government to 3D print ...

SpaceX launched its 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship vehicle for the fifth time ever today (Oct. 13), sending the giant rocket aloft from its Starbase site in South Texas at 8:25 am. EDT (1225 GMT; ...

SpaceX launched and returned a large rocket booster to its Texas site, catching it with mechanical arms in its first-ever “chopsticks” landing. Advertisement 0:54 3:34 0:41 Advertisement NOW ...

deploying four landing legs a few seconds before touchdown. Snatching the 230-foot-tall Super Heavy out of the sky with mechanical arms as the rocket descends and hovers right beside its launch ...

Now, with Rocket Lab's new Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) machine, it can be done in a single day. You can think of it as being similar to a 39 ft tall (12 m), 75-ton, autonomous 3D printer that ...

The unique chopstick-style catching mechanism is also critical for the rocket's success. Instead of having heavy legs like SpaceX's Falcon-9 boosters, Super Heavy forgoes any means of landing by ...

Nearly five years after COVID-19 ground the world to a halt, the global supply chain still hasn’t fully recovered. Specialty industries like space travel were particularly hard hit, given the ...

SpaceX successfully launched the latest test flight of Starship Sunday morning, the most powerful rocket system ever ... Rather than strapping landing legs onto the side of the Super Heavy ...

Former President Donald Trump praised Elon Musk for SpaceX's successful Starship rocket landing, highlighting Musk's ingenuity in cost-saving measures. At a rally, Trump recounted Musk's ...