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What happens now? The second stage of the rocket is now gliding through orbit, carrying the Blue Ring Pathfinder payload. In a short while, the rocket's upper stage will orient itself down towards ...

which licenses commercial rocket launches. While SpaceX said initial data indicates a fire developed in the aft section of the ship, Musk said on X that next month's eighth Starship flight is ...

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 ...

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“We are assuming that we have lost the ship.” According to SpaceX, “Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn,” but said teams are still going over the ...

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 rocket system's upper stage appears to have ... "Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure ...

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 ...

its gargantuan new-generation rocket. Blue Origin will now attempt to land New Glenn’s first-stage booster on a drone ship stationed about 1,000 kilometres downrange in the Atlantic Ocean.

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 ...