12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025

Starship debris is seen streaking through the sky after the January 16 explosion. Captured from video by Brian Henry By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 29 December 2025 2025 was a very busy year for spaceflight, for better and for worse. We saw quite a few milestones notched in the

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An artist's illustration of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites in orbit. (Image credit: SpaceX)

Doomed SpaceX Starlink satellite photographed from orbit

An artist's illustration of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites in orbit. (Image credit: SpaceX) By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 23 December 2025 Vantor's WorldView-3 satellite snapped the stunning photo on Dec. 18. We just got a great up-close look at a SpaceX Starlink satellite in orbit, thanks to Vantor's WorldView-3

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2.8 days to disaster: Why we are running out of time in low earth orbit

Paths of Starlink satellites as of Feb 2024. Credit: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio. By Andy Tomaswick, Published by Phys.org, 15 December 2025 A "House of Cards" is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a

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Multiple space companies join NATO’s DIANA defense accelerator

By Jason Rainbow, Published by Space News, 10 December 2025 TAMPA, Fla. — NATO has picked 150 companies from 24 of its member countries to join its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) next year, including more than two dozen with ties to the space sector. Each company

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