Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...

Villagomez was gifted the ball by Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut to fly into space, fifth human to walk on the ...

For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...

Named Fram2 in deference to the ship “Fram ... for OneWeb at 11:50 p.m. Monday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40. Read more. Jan. 15: The fifth-ever flight of SpaceX’s ...

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 ...

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.

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.” The last data received from Starship indicated the rocket had ...

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 ...

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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 ... first time since the Apollo era, largely depends ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket from a company site in Texas a little after 5:30 p.m. ET, the company’s seventh mission of a powerful-but-still-experimental vehicle that consists of a ...