Telemetry from the Starship froze eight minutes and 27 seconds after launch following unexpected engine shutdowns or failures. SpaceX later confirmed the ship's destruction in a posting on X, using a tongue-in-cheek description: "Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during it...
Rocket Launch Keeps Europe Alive in Space Ariane-5 Success Follows Pair of FailuresJoseph Fitchett
SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft, atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket, lifts off from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on a brief uncrewed test flight from Boca Chica, Texas, April 20, 2023, in a still image from video.SpaceX via Reuters But for the vehicle's first integr...
Everyone’s heard the mantra “space is hard.” These launch disasters show how many things can go wrong.
Highlighting just how challenging it is to develop such technology, Interstellar Technologies has so far suffered two rocket launch failures. Out of two rocket launches. Fortunately, the rockets were unmanned and no one has been injured during the failed efforts. ...
The launch is all but certain to raise fresh issues over whether Proton Breeze-M manufacturing team has workmanship quality issues that were not addressed by the inquiries into the failures of August 2011 and August 2012. The Dec. 9 failure poses serious problems for Mexican satellite operator Sa...
Seattle-based Spaceflight, which was working with Rocket Lab to deploy a Canon Electronics satellite in Sunday’s mission,saidthat while it was disappointed, it is “always aware that launch failures are part of the business of space.” It added, “We have faith in all our launch vehicles,...
Even over the full history of Soyuz rockets, failures have not resulted in any fatalities during launch, he added. The two other serious launch incidents occurred in 1975 and 1983, respectively. The 1975 failure "was probably the most dangerous one," Siddiqi said, "because they had to endure...
when the rocket is sitting on the launchpad — requires a change in velocity, or delta-V. The rocket equation can be used to figure out how much fuel is required for a certain delta-V, and thus a desired orbit. The problem is that the mass of fuel required scales exponentially with ...
The mission is the latest in Rocket Lab’s program to make Electron the first reusable orbital launch vehicle dedicated to small satellites. After splashing down in the ocean, Electron’s first stage will be recovered by ship and transported back to Roc