we can confirm we did lose the ship. "It looks like we lost contact a little under eight and a half minutes into the flight." Image: SpaceX's rocket made the test flight from a launch site in Boca ...

Credit: OroraTech WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab announced Jan. 22 a contract to launch a set of wildfire-monitoring satellites for German company OroraTech on a short turnaround. Rocket Lab said it ...

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX suspects a fire is to blame for his 400-foot-tall Starship imploding in space after launching from Texas — sending trails of flaming debris raining down near the Caribbean.

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Starship has a "flight termination system" which causes the rocket to explode if it veers off course. The breaking apart of the ship ensures that large chunks of the spacecraft don't pose threats ...

The company said they lost several engines and telemetry and that the ship had been lost. There were no astronauts on board the test flight mission. SpaceX added that the rocket used Thursday is a ...

In a post on his social media platform X, Musk said the main rocket’s failure might have been due to an oxygen or fuel leak in the firewall of the ship’s engine, adding: “Nothing so far ...

The Super Heavy booster successfully landed using the "chopsticks" mechanism before the unmanned rocket was apparently ... lost contact with the uncrewed ship, later announcing the spacecraft ...

The ship had successfully separated from the booster and had started its own rocket engines to ascend to orbit before it appeared some of those engines gave out. The company then saw its link to ...

The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday ... who said before the flight that it was a “little crazy” to try to recover the machinery on the first ...

Jeff Bezos’ space company launched its massive new rocket for the first time, aiming to advance the Amazon founder’s lifelong space-exploration ambitions. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket ...