The prototype upper stage vehicle leapt just 30 feet into the air, but the successful test suggests Stoke Space is heading in the right direction.
Once operational, the system will work to suppress the power of SpaceX’s megarocket, which exerts nearly 17 million pounds of thrust at launch.
Resembling a gigantic bidet for rockets, the deluge system is meant to minimize damage at the pad when Starship takes flight.
The Zhuque-2 rocket beat other methalox-fueled rockets, such as SpaceX's Starship, to orbit.
Lucy is currently en route to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, but a problematic solar array potentially threatened the groundbreaking mission.
Students in Switzerland will use the prototype habitat to explore architectural solutions to the challenges of living on another planet.
Musk wanted the trial date to be stretched to early 2023, but the judge landed on October of this year.
Musk said he wanted to help purge bots on Twitter before citing it as a reason not to complete the deal.
Musk's lawyers sent a letter notifying Twitter's chief legal officer Friday that he sought to terminate the deal.
At least Musk's obsession with birth rates might also benefit his employees' work-life balance and general peace of mind?
The winning concept would ideally be ready for launch by the end of the decade.
Private space company Momentus had previously warned that “challenges” were to be expected during this inaugural mission.
The virtual meeting will take place on Thursday and will “cover topics and questions that have been raised over the past few weeks.”
There’s more to settling the Red Planet than just packing a whole lotta people into plus-sized rockets.
The lawsuit accused Elon Musk of intentionally working to lower the value of Twitter's stock after he agreed to acquire the company for around $44 billion.
A New York Post story claiming former President Donald Trump had influenced Elon Musk's Twitter purchase was knocked as 'false,' but Musk doesn’t see the irony.
Giving him a free pass is a slippery slope as more and more people profit from climate solutions.
The ad jokes about people who want to "fly away on their personal spaceships when things get hard."
Reuters reports the billionaire convinced banks to lend him money to buy Twitter with few details and a handful of ideas that aren't exactly groundbreaking.
After weeks of will-he-won't-he, the world's richest man has purchased the social media company for approximately $44 billion.
