SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches on a test flight from Starbase, Texas, on May 27, 2025. Eric Gay / AP By William Harwood, Published by CBS News, 28 May 2025 After spectacular back-to-back upper stage failures in January and March, SpaceX launched another Super Heavy-Starship rocket Tuesday on the program's
Yellow and orange glow mapping radar intensity, overlaying a picture of Kosmos 482. (Fraunhofer FHR) By Michelle Starr, Published by Science Alert, 15 May 2025 More than 50 years ago in the early 1960s, the Soviet space program embarked on a bold new undertaking to go where no human had
The rocket explodes. Photograph: AP By Oliver Holmes, Published by The Guardian, 30 March 2025 Uncrewed Spectrum test rocket’s failure seconds after blast-off said to have produced extensive data nonetheless A test rocket intended to kickstart satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded less than a minute after takeoff from
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket debris burns up over Ingersleben, Germany on Feb. 19, 2025. (Image credit: Bennett Theile) By Julian Dossett, Published by Space.com, 20 February 2025 The Falcon 9 upper stage failed to deorbit as planned following its Feb. 1 launch. A SpaceX rocket stage fell to Earth early
An RS1 rocket from ABL Space Systems set up on a launch pad at the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska. (ABL Space Systems) By Davis Hovey, Published by KMXT, Kodiak, Alaska, 18 February 2025 The Alaska Aerospace Corporation is suing an aviation insurance group for the roughly $3 million it spent cleaning
Starship on launch pad By Jackie Wattles, Published by CNN, 1 February 2025 It was a typical balmy afternoon across the tropical islands that lie southeast of Florida, where tens of thousands of tourists flock this time of year for winter break. But on January 16, just after sundown, a
Image: EcoNews By Sanusha S., Published by EcoNews, 22 January 2025 SpaceX’s Starship flew for the seventh time on January 16, 2024, nearly taking off but impacting a cloud of explosive debris. Meanwhile, on completion of space exploration debris is raining down from the sky in the Caribbean and some
Starship on launch pad By William Harwood, Published by yahoo! news, 17 January 2025 The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered SpaceX to carry out a formal investigation into the breakup of its Starship rocket during a test flight Thursday that sent a spectacular shower of flaming debris plummeting back to
