Before the loss, SpaceX caught a Super Heavy booster at the launch pad. SpaceX lost the upper stage of its Starship rocket on Thursday, the company said. It was the rocket's seventh orbital test ...

The launch was a huge milestone for Blue Origin, which Bezos founded in 2000. It is a big step toward Blue Origin's ambitions of using reusable rockets to regularly carry satellites and NASA ...

Approval has been given for the first UK launch of a traditional "vertical" rocket. The critical clearance from the air safety regulator has taken the country a step closer to seeing its first ...

SpaceX's seventh Starship test flight will now launch no earlier than Thursday, Jan. 16, at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT). SpaceX is one day away from the launch its first Starship flight of 2025 ...

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 36 from the Kennedy Space Center ... [+] on its maiden flight, at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch occurred at 2:03 a.m. EST ...

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket achieved orbit on its long-awaited first launch Jan. 16, although the company failed in its attempt to recover the first stage. New Glenn lifted off ...

Even so, the company’s first launch to orbit is a sign that Jeff Bezos’s space company is capable of challenging the current dominance of Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the private space launch business.

About 8.5 minutes after launch, communications between the ground and the upper-stage vehicle, which is known as Starship, were cut off. “We can confirm that we did lose the ship,” said Kate ...

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 ...

Jan. 15—The Starship-Super Heavy launch from Boca Chica/Starbase scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed until Thursday. SpaceX gave no reason for the delay.

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Following a scrubbed launch attempt and weather-related delays, Blue Origin will once again try to send its New Glenn rocket into space for the ...

While you could say this about every single year, 2024 was a big year for Google, but 2025 promises to be even bigger – here’s just what we expect to launch, plus a few extras we hope to see.