FAA warns airlines that exploding rockets could ‘significantly reduce safety’ for commercial flights after string of test ...

An exploding rocket rattled a small community north of Austin on Monday. Firefly Aerospace, which successfully landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the moon in March, was testing its Alpha rocket in ...

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SpaceX has unveiled a radical redesign of its Starship rocket after several failed flight attempts of the Mars-bound rocket. Elon Musk’s space company announced on Wednesday that it will remove one of ...

Elon Musk is unraveling in real time. This week, SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded — again — during a ground test in Texas. That makes four failures in six months for the company’s most ambitious ...

Rocket launches that once felt like rare spectacles are now routine enough to snarl the daily flow of commercial flights. As private companies scale up ambitious programs and test ever larger vehicles ...