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

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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 ...

HELSINKI — A Chinese state-owned company performed a rocket flight aimed at testing reentry and landing burns late Saturday without announcing the outcome. The Longxing-2 test article lifted off ...

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 ...

Dramatic footage showing streaks of light zipping across the sky surfaced online following Elon Musk's Starship explosion over the Atlantic Ocean.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

upgraded version of the rocket. The Starship upper stage, two metres (6.56 ft) taller than previous versions, was a "new generation ship with significant upgrades", SpaceX said before the test.