B1091 is in fact a Falcon Heavy center core that will fly in a single stick configuration a handful of times before being ...

Space is part of the great power competition between the U.S. and China, with both countries racing for dominance.

Like birds returning to their nests, these feather-like grid fins help steer rockets back down through the atmosphere toward their landing zones.

Watch how the atmospheric re-entry of one of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy's fairings, reported to be traveling at more than 15 times ...

USSF-52 marks Falcon Heavy’s third mission for the Space Force, all within the least year. The rocket first flew in 2018 sending up Elon Musk’s Tesla on a trip out past Mars.

Falcon Heavy launches start at $90 million, compared to the starting price of $62 million for the smaller Falcon 9, according to SpaceX’s website. ULA has advertised the starting cost of its ...

With a single Falcon Heavy rocket, he said, the United States could fly a crew of astronauts around the Moon. With two, it could land humans on the Moon and bring them back.

But the Falcon Heavy has failed to live up to its commercial promise as a can-do rocket in the same way that the Falcon 9 has. It accounts for a tiny fraction of SpaceX’s launches, while the ...

SpaceX wants to compete with its arch rival in the lucrative business of launching ultra-heavy satellites into space. That’s why the second-ever launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket — and the ...

The next SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch date is up in the air, but the most optimistic projections have Viasat-3 flying in December. A Space Force payload is just behind, in 2023.