Preparations for launch of the sixth Kinetica-1 rocket in December 2024 at Jiuquan spaceport. HELSINKI — A Chinese commercial Kinetica-1 solid rocket failed late Thursday, with the launch attempt ...

Welcome to Edition 7.02 of the Rocket Report! The highlight of this week was the hugely successful debut of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket. They will address the upper stage issue, I am sure. Given Europe’s ...

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 ...

Japan’s private rocket company Space One watched its Kairos vehicle fail for the third consecutive time on March 5, 2026, after the rocket launched from a coastal site in the Wakayama region of ...

HELSINKI — Chinese commercial rocket outfit iSpace suffered a launch failure late Wednesday in a fresh setback for the company. The four-stage Hyperbola-1 solid rocket lifted off from Jiuquan ...

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Three astronauts landed back on Earth on Thursday after a troubled stint on the ISS marred by an air leak and the failure of a rocket set to bring new crew members. A Soyuz spacecraft ferrying ...

A Falcon 9 rocket's second stage failed during a SpaceX Starlink satellite launch on July 11. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

China has confirmed that its Shijian 32 experimental satellite was lost after a malfunction on a Long March 3B rocket, a rare public admission of failure for a program that usually highlights only its ...

Japan's space agency successfully launched its flagship H3 rocket on Friday (June 12, 2026), months after a previous mission to put a geolocation satellite into orbit ended in failure. The H3 was ...