The new Neutron rocket includes a "hippo" mouth fairing that deploys upper stages by spitting them out from inside.

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At 71 feet up, four of the eight rockets on the descent stage shut down. The craft continues to drop at a speed of 1.7 mph. The descent stage lowers Perseverance on three 20-foot-long nylon cables ...

Perseverance photographs the parachute used to slow its landing; a rocket-powered stage lowers Perseverance onto Mars in a "sky crane" manoeuvre.

Perseverance is already doing the first key stage of this mission—drilling ... itself that delivers the drill tubes to an ascent rocket. But these financial savings come with a scientific ...

Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...

MOSCOW, November 30. /TASS/. The research on the creation of a parachute system for reusable space rocket stages is planned to start as early as in 2022, a source in the press service of the ...

"Also, an option will be considered to develop the Angara-A5VM carrier rocket with reusable stages," Roscosmos specified. The flight tests of the Angara-A5M carrier rocket will begin in 2024.