CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — After SpaceX sent up more than 20 Starlink satellites on Sunday night, its young rocket booster was lost after a fire. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off ...
The anomaly, which occurred during a Space Force certification flight, was traced to a manufacturing defect in a solid rocket motor nozzle. Despite the setback, ULA has a backlog of missions and a ...
Welcome to Edition 7.35 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX's steamroller is still ... rocket motor nozzle on the second flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur last October was caused ...
As others have pointed out the problems at SpaceX aren't worrying in and of themselves as we'd expect them at other places. But they point to regressions at SpaceX having become sloppy or unfocused.
Besides the telescope, SpaceX's Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg Space Force Base for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch. From their own separate polar orbit, the satellites ...
The duo launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March 12 GMT). There was a glimmer in the air tonight at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and it wasn't only because ...
The mission is known as Starlink 12-21. The payload is the next batch of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites. As it flies into the night sky, the rocket will travel southeast from the launch pad.
DEBRIS from a SpaceX Starship rocket that broke apart mid-flight on March 6 has been located and recovered in The Bahamas, with officials conducting environmental assessments to determine whether ...
Learn about the mission profile about United's Launch Alliance - the 2nd certification flight of the Vulcan rocket. Credit: ULA White House correspondents’ dinner cancels anti-Trump comedian’s ...
Credit: SpaceX photo Two NASA science missions set to ride a Falcon 9 rocket into space from the West Coast also are providing a lesson in patience. With less than two hours in the countdown ...
A SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after it was launched from Texas on Thursday, grounding flights and triggering warnings about falling spaceship debris. SpaceX confirmed the un-crewed ship had ...