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Go back a generation of development, and excepting the shuttle-derived systems, all liquid rockets used RP-1 (aka kerosene) for their first stage. Now it seems everybody and their dog wants to fuel ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — Not far from the Pacific Ocean, where just to the south, oil platforms dot the horizon, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted into space Monday with dozens of ...

Shortly after 2 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California carrying several satellites into orbit. These launches have become almost ...

UK security and aerospace contractor BAE Systems has successfully launched a dedicated satellite to detect emissions of methane worldwide, with the ultimate goal of driving reductions of the ...

Monday, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Environmental Defense Fund's MethaneSAT satellite. The satellite will track leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from oil and gas companies.

Cheaper, cleaner methane key to Beijing-based firm's plan to develop reusable rocket LandSpace looking to test its first reusable rocket soon Launch put into orbit satellites developed by ...

A team of scientists and environmentalists has launched a satellite into space in order to hunt for planet-heating methane emissions. On Monday, a SpaceX rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force ...

There’s a new eye in the sky that’s designed to detect emissions of methane, an invisible yet potent gas that is dangerously heating the world. MethaneSAT will sweep the globe using a high-resolution ...

Roughly two-thirds of all atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, comes from methanogens. Tracking down which methanogens in which environment produce methane with a specific isotope signature ...