With the Ariane 5 retired before the Ariane 6 was ready ... The bottleneck to higher flight rates is the production of the solid boosters, two or four of which are needed for each Ariane 6 ...

The current focus of PLD Space is on the Miura 5, a small launch vehicle capable ... would use two additional first stages as side boosters, analogous to the Falcon Heavy. In expendable mode ...

The continent that once dominated commercial satellite launches with its Ariane program — a symbol ... other connections ...

And a week ago, United Launch Alliance flew its second Vulcan rocket, which lost one of its booster nozzles in midair ... to introduce beyond its Miura 5 rocket, which is expected to make its ...

Of course customers pay a lot more: SpaceX charges a retail price of $67 million per launch, in part because it has no competition; Arianespace retired the Ariane 5 rocket ... SpaceX caught the Super ...

Those are used, for example, in China's Long March 11, India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and in strap-on boosters of ...

This success highlights the effectiveness of vertical integration, especially following the recent recovery of a Starship rocket booster through a groundbreaking ... in commercial satellite launches ...

The highlight of Flight 5 is the return of the Super Heavy booster: the rocket’s first stage returned to the launch pad, where it was caught mid-air by a giant caliper-like mechanism called ...

The test flight, which took off at 8:25 a.m. ET (7:25 a.m. CT) from SpaceX's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, featured the powerful Super Heavy rocket booster topped with the uncrewed Starship ...