SpaceX’s Starship rocket performs a hot stage separation during a flight test on 18 November, 2023 (SpaceX) By Darren Orf, Published by Popular Mechanics, 5 September 2024 We learned something, though. In mid-November 2023, a disastrous SpaceX launch, which saw the explosion of not one but two rockets, offered a
RFA lost a first stage Aug. 19 that it was hoping to use for a maiden flight in a matter of weeks. Credit: Rocket Factory Augsburg By Jason Rainbow, Published by Space News, 23 August 2024 TAMPA, Fla. — Rocket Factory Augsburg no longer plans a maiden flight this year after losing
The explosion happened during a nine-engine test - image source: BBC The explosion happened during a nine-engine test - source: BBCBy Jeff Foust, Published by Space News, 19 August 2024 ORLANDO, Fla. — The first stage of the inaugural Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) rocket was destroyed in a static-fire test
An RS1 rocket from ABL Space Systems set up on a launch pad at the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska. (Courtesy ABL Space Systems) By Davis Hovey, Published by Alaska Public Media, 25 July 2024 A fire last week caused “irrecoverable damage” to a rocket that was initially expected to launch this
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 20 Starlink satellites to orbit from California on July 11, 2024. The second stage failed shortly after this picture was taken. (Image credit: SpaceX) By Elizabeth Howell, published by Space.com, 15 July 2024 A Falcon 9 rocket's second stage failed during a SpaceX Starlink satellite
By Michael Kan, Published by PC Magazine, 12 July 2024 The satellites will fall back to Earth and burn up in the atmosphere, but the glitch may delay upcoming Falcon 9 flights and possibly the fall launch of a cellular Starlink service with T-Mobile. SpaceX expects all 20 Starlink satellites
By Michael Kan, Published by PC Magazine,12 July 2024 SpaceX is trying to use the satellites’ onboard ion thrusters to propel them into the correct orbit. Otherwise, they might plunge back to Earth and burn up in the atmosphere. On Thursday night, SpaceX sent up another batch of Starlink satellites into
The nine astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station pose for a photo. The two astronauts of Boeing's Crew Flight test mission, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, are in the blue flight suits in the bottom row. (Image credit: NASA) By Josh Dinner, Published by Space.com, 11 July 2024 Engineers continue
