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 ...

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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 ...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday (Aug 28), following a failed landing attempt that left the spacecraft toppled over in flames. The reusable ...

Japan’s flagship H3 rocket has suffered a fresh setback, with an engine failure in its upper stage cutting short a high‑stakes mission and leaving a navigation satellite stranded short of orbit. The ...

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 ...

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 ...