Investors swatted Firefly Aerospace shares early Tuesday after a section of the company's Alpha rocket exploded during a preflight test on Monday afternoon. Aerospace peer Draganfly rallied and broke ...

Firefly Aerospace's seventh Alpha rocket exploded on Monday (Sept. 29) during preflight testing. The vehicle was destroyed, and Firefly is assessing the damage to its test stand.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has sunk $3 billion to build up its manufacturing plant and launchpad on the Space Coast in the last decade. On Friday, it invited visitors for a rare media tour of the plant ...

The rocket already had a mixed record heading into this year. Firefly has only achieved two fully successful missions in six launches of the Alpha rocket. Two missions put their payloads into ...

While the world's richest man might have breathed a sigh of relief after his Starship rocket completed a stellar launch last month, Elon Musk can't afford to celebrate just yet.

Blue Origin just opened Lunar Plant 1 on its sprawling Space Coast manufacturing site where it will build the Blue Moon Mark 2 landers to bring Artemis astronauts to the moon.

And we don't make you work six and a half days a week, 12 hours a day." Kemp also accused Firefly Aerospace of sending Astra "garbage" rocket engines as part of the companies' partnership on ...

President Trump's policy in his second term has blazed a new American trail in space — and spawned an urgent race with China that is fast approaching the finish line.

A high-stakes race to the moon is on, and NASA doesn’t want to lose. U.S. government officials and astronauts at the Johnson Space Center this week touted their commitment to accelerating lunar ...

In August, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy directed the agency to fast-track an effort to land a reactor on the moon by late 2029. The agency wants a 100-kilowatt system, about enough to power a ...

The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 as a common deadline.

The company’s Starship rocket, which has suffered a series of recent test explosions, is still years away from being ready for the mission, former NASA executives say.