On Tuesday, October 20, 2026, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) executed an orbital technology demonstration ...

The Air Force sent survival gear through space and recovered it from the Pacific, but the road from a 2,200-pound capsule to ...

The Starfall capsule carried several experimental cargo pods to see if they would survive the journey to space.

Takeaways Up Front 1. The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory tested a SpaceX Starfall capsule on Oct. 20 to assess whether ...

The US Air Force is exploring whether rockets could deliver military cargo anywhere on ...

Many a shipwrecked sailor has wished that a survival kit complete with liferaft would drop from the sky. Now, the US Air ...

The test evaluated cargo equipment aboard SpaceX’s Starfall capsule as the U.S. Air Force continues researching commercial ...

Large-scale rocket cargo delivery could be used in the future for several real-world disaster response and military resupply ...

The US Air Force and SpaceX successfully tested an orbital delivery system using a Starfall reentry capsule to drop a survival kit from space to Earth.

Advanced missiles can travel halfway around the world in minutes to strike an enemy. The Air Force wonders if they could also ...

: “Rocket Cargo would enable rapid delivery of aircraft-size payloads for agile global logistics such as urgent humanitarian assistance and disaster response. (U.S. Air Force illustration/Randy Palmer ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 8: Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket sits at Launch Complex 36 ahead of its launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on November 8, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, ...