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The N-1: The Soviet Moon Rocket
The Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it off the ground. Rushed, ...
SpaceNews17d
Rocket Lab to launch OroraTech satellites
Credit: OroraTech WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab announced Jan. 22 a contract to launch a set of wildfire-monitoring satellites for German company OroraTech on a short turnaround. Rocket Lab said it ...
SpaceNews19d
China performs high altitude reusable rocket test with uncertain outcome
HELSINKI — A Chinese state-owned company performed a rocket flight aimed at testing reentry and landing burns late Saturday without announcing the outcome. The Longxing-2 test article lifted off ...
Sky20d
Blue Origin launch latest: Jeff Bezos reusable rocket New Glenn blasts into space - as Musk sends message to team
What happens now? The second stage of the rocket is now gliding through orbit, carrying the Blue Ring Pathfinder payload. In a short while, the rocket's upper stage will orient itself down towards ...
Independent Online21d
Two minibus passengers fatally shot in late night N1 robbery after driver stopped to relieve himself
Two minibus passengers were killed in an alleged robbery on the N1 north of Pretoria late on Friday night. According to the South African Police Service (SAPS), the driver of a white Mercedes Benz ...
New York Post21d
Fire likely caused Starship rocket to implode, SpaceX says
Elon Musk’s SpaceX suspects a fire is to blame for his 400-foot-tall Starship imploding in space after launching from Texas — sending trails of flaming debris raining down near the Caribbean.
ABC News22d
SpaceX loses spacecraft after catching rocket booster during test flight
The more than 400-foot rocket, powered by 33 Raptor engines, appeared to lift off successfully at 4:37 p.m. CT from SpaceX's launchpad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. But minutes ...
CNN22d
SpaceX Starship spacecraft is lost on 7th test flight
For years, there has appeared to be no love lost between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and the Federal Aviation Administration, which licenses commercial rocket launches. Musk has repeatedly used X ...
NBC News22d
SpaceX says its Starship spacecraft broke up midflight as videos of debris emerge online
The rocket system's upper stage appears to have disintegrated somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico or possibly the Caribbean Sea. Shortly after SpaceX said it lost touch with the spacecraft ...
New York Post22d
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket on first test flight
The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...
Wall Street Journal22d
Jeff Bezos’ Space Ambitions Take Flight as New Rocket Blasts Off
Jeff Bezos’ space company launched its massive new rocket for the first time, aiming to advance the Amazon founder’s lifelong space-exploration ambitions. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket ...