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 ...

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 6.35 of the Rocket Report! It’s been a big week for rocket failures, with a small launch in Japan going sideways shortly after liftoff, a rare misstep for China’s Long March family ...

Ukraine's space agency is criticizing the Vega-C rocket failure investigation, which blamed a component sourced from a Ukrainian company. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes The Ukrainian space ...

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 ...

Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl releasing the LauncherOne booster rocket during its test flight in 2019. Photo: Virgin Orbit/Greg Robinson Richard Branson’s private space venture Virgin Orbit is reportedly ...

(CNN) — Blue Origin’s tourism rocket — which is designed to vault paying customers on brief trips to the edge of space — will return to flight on Monday after the Jeff Bezos-founded company spent more ...

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 ...

Tokyo, Dec. 23 (Jiji Press)--The impact from the separation of the payload fairing was stronger than usual in Monday's failed launch of the No. 8 H3 rocket, it was learned Tuesday. The Japan Aerospace ...