Watch this new European rocket lift off … then crash
A European Vega-C rocket will launch tomorrow carrying the Sentinel-1C mission into orbit in the rocket's first return to flight since it failed in 2022. The European Space Agency (ESA) is launching this Earth-monitoring satellite from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, and you can watch along as the event is live-streamed.
A second SpaceX Starship spacecraft exploded on Thursday. This is the second time one has done this. A month and a half after losing one spacecraft in an explosion, SpaceX has lost another.
Watch as a TikTok video captures the dramatic explosion of SpaceX's Starship Flight 8 from an airplane window.
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1st-ever orbital rocket launch from European soil falls to Earth and explodes seconds into flightGermany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30).
The mission was not accomplished in this case. SpaceX—Elon Musk’s space technology company—launched a test flight of its Starship megarocket on March 6, but the mission was cut short when ...
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