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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed ...

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 ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday ... but we are obviously bummed out about ship,” said SpaceX spokesman Dan Huot. “It’s a flight test.