The third launch of a small launch vehicle developed by a Japanese company failed shortly after liftoff March 4, raising ...

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Updated at 1:30 p.m. ET Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR shows that an Iranian rocket appears to have exploded on the launch pad Thursday. The imagery from the commercial company and ...

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO, March 5 (Reuters) - Japan's Space One said its Kairos small rocket self-destructed 69 seconds after lift-off on Thursday, failing to achieve the country's first entirely ...

HELSINKI — China suffered a pair of launch failures Friday, seeing the loss of a classified Shijian satellite and the failed first launch of the Ceres-2 rocket. The Long March 3B lifted off at 11:55 ...

If you’re in the space business long enough, you learn there are numerous ways a rocket can fail. I’ve written my share of stories about misbehaving rockets and the extensive investigations that ...

Chinese space companies experienced two rocket launch failures in a single day, an incident occurring as the country accelerates its "space rise" ambitions. Some have even dubbed it a "black Saturday.

Firefly Aerospace is preparing to return its Alpha rocket to flight after a failed sixth launch attempt ended in an anomaly during a mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Moments after liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday morning, a shower of sparks emerged in the exhaust plume of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Seconds later, the rocket twisted on ...