For this, two primary approaches are being explored: horizontal and vertical landing. Horizontal landing, simply put, involves the use of aerodynamic wing structures to slow the rocket stage as it ...

With ReFEx (the Reusability Flight Experiment), the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is developing a technology demonstrator for the vertical take-off and ...

the rocket tipped over on landing due to excessive horizontal movement at touchdown. Joe tracked the cause down to a weak GPS signal caused by antenna position and a possible bug in the Kalman ...

That’s a pretty bold claim, but when you’ve made landing rockets on their tails as in the old science fiction pulp magazines seem routine, we suppose you’ve earned the right to a bit of bravado.

Announcer: Pretty good view! Narrator: But it's not this complex series of rocket-landing attempts that is why Musk called this the most difficult mission yet. It was the complexity of the payload ...

Last month, the aerospace company SpaceX made history by sending an orbital rocket into space and then landing it back on the ground. No one else in the history of aerospace engineering has ...