The Sea Dragon, a 490-foot behemoth, would have been built of inexpensive steel and launched from the sea, minimizing ground ...

"The Sea Dragon concept has been developed assuming that space transportation economy will result if launch vehicles are used that are very large, simple, and reusable, even if payload-to-liftoff ...

Elon Musk’s modern take on Robert Truax’s massive “Sea Dragon,” a 60’s-era concept ... two experimental at-sea rocket-launchers and a specialized satellite communications ship.

China has completed its first sea-based rocket launch of 2025, successfully deploying ten CentiSpace-01 satellites from the ...

China launched a Smart Dragon 3 carrier rocket on Monday morning off the coast of Haiyang in Shandong province, placing 10 satellites in space.

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 ...

A Smart Dragon 3 rocket lifts off in East China's Shandong province, sending the satellite group CentiSpace 01 into the planned orbit, Jan 13, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] ...