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When was the last time you thought about how a rocket moves through space? The average person is likely to know the basics of how planes direct themselves through the atmosphere, but rockets?

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

NASA is backing a radically different way to reach space, one that swaps towering rockets for a ground-based launcher that whips payloads to orbital speeds before they ever see a drop of fuel. The ...