The Starship Flight 8 investigation clears the way for Starship Flight 9 on May 27. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

It's eerily quiet on the spaceflight front. In the past two weeks, there has been just a single orbital launch — that of a Chinese Long March 4B rocket, which lofted the Gaofen-11 05 Earth-observation ...

The rocket was there. And then it decidedly was not. Shortly after sunrise on a late summer morning nearly nine years ago at SpaceX’s sole operational launch pad, engineers neared the end of a static ...

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 ...

Japan’s flagship H3 rocket has suffered a fresh setback, with an engine failure in its upper stage cutting short a high‑stakes mission and leaving a navigation satellite stranded short of orbit. The ...