Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 1:53 p.m. EST (1853 GMT), less than 24 hours after another Starlink flight from California.

marking the rocket model’s fifth sea-based launch, China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, maker of the Smart Dragon 3 series, said in a news release after the liftoff. The Smart Dragon 3 is ...

A Smart Dragon-3 rocket carrying the satellite group CentiSpace 01 blasts off from the sea near the city of Haiyang in east ...

China successfully launched its Smart Dragon-3 commercial carrier rocket on Monday, January 13, 2025, from the waters near Haiyang in Shandong Province. The rocket lifted off and successfully ...

SD-3 is a member of China's Dragon rocket family. It made its maiden flight in 2022 from a ship in the Yellow Sea. Unlike the Long March rockets, the country's backbone launch vehicles ...

13 (Xinhua) -- A Smart Dragon-3 rocket lifted off on Monday ... off at 11 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the sea near the city of Haiyang. Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore launch ...

The rocket blasted off at 11 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the sea near the city of Haiyang. Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore launch mission. A Smart Dragon-3 rocket carrying the ...

The Sea Dragon, a super-heavy lift launch vehicle, was a real concept under consideration with NASA in the 1960s. If the design had come to fruition, it would have been the largest rocket ever ...

China has successfully conducted its first sea-based rocket launch of the ... The Smart Dragon-3, developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, is a commercial rocket designed ...

“In the future, the Smart Dragon-3 rocket will undergo further improvements ... belonging to the Haiyang Eastern spaceport for sea launches. The spaceport plans more than 10 for 2025, having ...