SpaceX halted rocket launch seconds before takeoff Sunday
SpaceX on Sunday called off a Falcon 9 rocket launch with 11 seconds remaining after the plane allegedly entered restricted airspace near the launch pad. A California exhibition scheduled to send Starlink satellites into orbit collapsed at the last moment when an aircraft entered the rocket's launch space. According to a broadcast on SpaceX's X […]
SpaceX blames Starship rocket launch accident on fire
Elon Musk's SpaceX company suspects a fire may have been the cause of his 400-foot Starship exploding in space after launching from Texas, showering a trail of burning debris near the Caribbean Sea. I doubt it. The billionaire said a preliminary assessment of Thursday's failed test flight showed that an internal leak of liquid oxygen […]
SpaceX Starship Rocket Breaks Apart After Launch
The latest SpaceX Starship rocket underwent a rough test flight Thursday, disintegrating within nine minutes of liftoff. This was the Starship rocket's seventh test flight, which launched Thursday from the Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas, and lasted nine minutes before SpaceX lost contact. “We certainly lost the ship,” said Kate Tice, SpaceX's senior manager of […]
SpaceX’s Starship mega rocket blasts off on its most complex test flight yet
SpaceX on Thursday used a giant mechanical arm for the second time to return a Starship rocket to its pad minutes after liftoff. At the same time, an empty spacecraft launched from Texas and, like previous test flights, flew over the Gulf of Mexico, almost circling the globe. SpaceX spokesman Dan Fott said mission managers […]
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Successfully Launches ‘New Glenn’ Rocket to Orbit
Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, has successfully completed the first test flight of its giant New Glenn rocket, a key move in the company's quest to provide reliable access to space. It was a milestone. Associated Press report Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 36 at […]
Jeff Bezos Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launches into orbit on first test flight from Florida
Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above Earth. The New Glenn rocket, named after the first American to orbit Earth, took off from Florida from the same pad used to launch NASA's Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft half a century […]
Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Cancels Debut Rocket Launch Minutes Before Liftoff
Jeff Bezos' space tourism company Blue Origin canceled the first launch of its massive new rocket early Monday, citing technical problems. The two-stage, 320-foot-long reusable New Glenn rocket will lift off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida during a three-hour window starting at 1 a.m. ET Monday. It was […]
Toyota announces move into rocket launches at CES 2025 with $45M investment
Toyota Motor Corporation is investing about $45 million to enter the space industry, and insists it's not just “one car company” considering a rocket launch. On Monday, during CES 2025, a major technology trade show in Las Vegas that brings together the latest equipment, Chairman Akio Toyoda announced that the automaker will invest $44.4 million, […]
Toyota plans to make over $44 million investment in rocket company
See what's being clicked on FoxBusiness.com. Toyota's mobility subsidiary will invest $44.3 million in the Japanese rocket company. Rocket company Interstellar Technologies (IST) will receive Toyota's multi-million dollar investment “by the first close” of its Series F financing, the rocket company announced Tuesday. The company also announced a “business partnership” with Toyota Motor Corporation. IST […]
Hamas Fires Rocket at Humanitarian Crossing
The Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas fired rockets on Saturday, attacking the Erez crossing, a border crossing that is a major route for humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. A red alert was sounded at 4:51 p.m. in Netif Hasala, a town near the northern border of Gaza that was attacked by Hamas on October […]