China’s sprawling state-owned rocket developer, maker of the country’s Long March rocket family, announced it recovered a reusable orbital-class booster for the first time Friday in the South China ...

Reusable rockets completely transformed modern spaceflight by allowing massive boosters to survive launch, violent atmospheric reentry, and controlled landing sequences once thought nearly impossible.

It has been a little more than a month since China recovered an orbital-class rocket booster for the first time. A second launch operator accomplished a similar feat Tuesday in another sign of China’s ...

State media in China, which is seeking to advance its space program, deemed the result “a major breakthrough in the country’s reusable rocket technology.” ...

SpaceX might have a head start in reusable rockets, but Chinese commercial space companies are exploring ways to catch up in the cost-saving tech As technological developments augur an era of renewed ...

Dai Zheng walked away from a prestigious career in China’s state aerospace program for an unproven startup in 2016, a ...

Stoke Space Technologies has completed the initial closing of a billion-dollar Series E financing round, bringing total ...

On most rockets, the fairing splits into two halves and falls away during ascent, tumbling toward the ocean. Even the companies that recover fairings have to fish them out of the water and refurbish ...

China’s state-owned space company successfully launched a Long March orbital rocket and landed the booster on a seagoing recovery vessel, making it the second country to achieve the feat. The ...

Stoke Space plans to develop a more powerful reusable rocket after raising $1 billion in a funding round led by Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital. The Series E financing valued the U.S. launch ...

Stoke has "completed the initial closing" of a $1B Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger rocket for operations.

Launch preparations for Gravity-1 aboard the Defu-15002 sea platform. Credit: Orienspace HELSINKI — Commercial launch company Orienspace has kicked off preparations for an IPO coaching process while ...