With its four sails towering 121 feet (37 meters) over its main deck, Canopée is a cargo ship with an unusual design, and a very unusual cargo. The sails have a combined surface area of almost 16,000 ...
The U.S. Navy has employed a variety of rocket delivery ships for decades now, so it's not unusual for a missile frigate, Ohio-class nuclear submarine, or other ship to fire off destructive Tomahawk ...
After numerous setbacks, the European Space Agency recently announced that its next-generation rocket, Ariane 6, is set to launch in just six months’ time. If successful, the heavy-lift launcher will ...
China’s first rocket recovery ship, Xingji Guihang (“Interstellar Return”), sails during its Aug. 5, 2025 launch ceremony in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province. Credit: iSpace HELSINKI — Chinese launch ...
The U.S. Air Force announced on Monday that it intends to build two landing pads on a remote island in the Pacific. It wants to land rockets there as part of a test of the Rocket Cargo Vanguard ...
As we have been reporting on Ars, NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission has been going rather well so far. Of course, Orion’s big test is yet to come with the fiery reentry through Earth’s atmosphere on ...
United Launch Alliance’s RocketShip docks at the harbor on the South Base of Vandenberg Space Force Base with the Vulcan rocket components stowed inside the huge cargo vessel. Credit: Contributed ...
Even in the long-gone times when technology was unable to help us with our dreams of space exploration, humans still managed to leave the confines of our own planet thanks to imagination. In our ...
China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the results were spectacular.
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