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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ...

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 ...

Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its massive New Glenn rocket into orbit for the first time early Thursday ... the booster – powered by liquid methane and ...

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 ...

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 — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...

Key points The seventh test flight of SpaceX's Starship launched from Texas It is the world's largest and most powerful rocket at nearly 400ft tall Elon Musk's SpaceX is trying to build the first ...