The Vulcan rocket leapt off its pad at 4:22 a.m. EST, lighting up the Florida coast before a problem inside one of its strap-on boosters turned a routine climb to orbit into a high-stakes anomaly.

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It's eerily quiet on the spaceflight front. In the past two weeks, there has been just a single orbital launch — that of a Chinese Long March 4B rocket, which lofted the Gaofen-11 05 Earth-observation ...

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 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 ...

Japan’s private rocket company Space One watched its Kairos vehicle fail for the third consecutive time on March 5, 2026, after the rocket launched from a coastal site in the Wakayama region of ...

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If you’re in the space business long enough, you learn there are numerous ways a rocket can fail. I’ve written my share of stories about misbehaving rockets and the extensive investigations that ...

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