SpaceX has halted its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket after a fresh second-stage anomaly, pausing one of the world’s most active launch fleets while engineers hunt for answers. The freeze follows a pattern ...

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

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

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 ...

Five failures in five years should force a reassessment — not just of engineering fixes, but of policy direction. If ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to reports from the South China Morning Post, nearly all rocket launches planned for next month at th ...

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