An H3 launch failure in December may have been caused by an unusual event that led to the satellite separating from the ...

FAA warns airlines that exploding rockets could ‘significantly reduce safety’ for commercial flights after string of test failures by Elon Musk’s Starship - Bulletin came after reports that multiple p ...

The H3 is a relatively new vehicle, with last month’s launch marking the eighth flight of Japan’s flagship rocket. The launcher falls on the medium-to-heavy section of the lift spectrum. The eighth H3 ...

China’s ambitious space calendar has taken a sudden hit as multiple launches scheduled for February at the Wenchang Space ...

China's state-owned space agency and a Beijing-based space company have launched investigations after suffering two failed rocket launches just 12 hours apart on Jan. 17. According to Lianhe Zaobao , ...

Japan’s H3 rocket suffered engine trouble on December 22, 2025, and failed to place a Japanese navigation satellite into orbit.

India's space programme has entered an uncomfortable phase where failure is no longer an exception but a recurring feature. The crash of PSLV-C62 in January 2026, which destroyed the EOS-N1 (Anvesha) ...

With the likes of SpaceX rattling off rocket launches seemingly every other day, you could be forgiven for thinking that sending massive vehicles to space had become as easy as baking a cake. But as ...

HELSINKI — China suffered a pair of launch failures Friday, seeing the loss of a classified Shijian satellite and the failed first launch of the Ceres-2 rocket. The Long March 3B lifted off at 11:55 ...

"Close to the end of the third stage [burn], we are seeing a little more disturbance in the vehicle roll rates, and subsequently, there is a deviation observed in the flight path." When you purchase ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...