A Chinese LandSapce ZhuQue-3 booster, the country's first to successfully touch down on land. LandSpace By Joseph Trevithick, Published by TWZ, 19 August 2026 Earlier today, Chinese firm LandSpace achieved the country’s first successful recovery of a reusable space launch rocket booster on land. This follows China’s first-ever recovery of
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Credit: Blue Origin By Jeff Foust, Published by Space News, 5 August 2026 WASHINGTON — Blue Origin has traced the explosion of its New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test in May to a
How the Lockheed Martin rocket was envisioned taking off from SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands By Jon Yeomans, Published y The Times, 25 July 2026 Lockheed Martin has abandoned plans for a first space rocket launch from British soil after failing to find a partner for the project. The
By Sandra V, Published by Union Rayo, 15 January 2026 The U.S. has sent a safety alert to airlines due to an issue that is getting worse: space junk. This junk comes from rockets that explode or fail during their launches. The alert was published by the Federal Aviation Administration
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
Gilmour photo showing Eris seconds after lift off By Harry Baker, Published by Live Science, 31 July 2025 Eris-1, the first rocket fully built by an Australian company, crashed back to Earth 14 seconds after taking off from a spaceport in Queensland. It was the country's first orbital launch attempt
Starship launch unscheduled disassembly. Image: Eco News By Dara Kerr, Published by The Guardian, 17 July 2025 Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim The north-west Hawaiian island of Mokumanamana is said to be touched
Image by Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty By Frank Landymore, Published by Futurism, 5 June 2025 "All flight 9 has proven is just how much of a dead end Starship is." Last week, both stages of SpaceX's Starship exploded after returning from space. The Super Heavy booster flew apart
