Before the loss, SpaceX caught a Super Heavy booster at the launch pad. SpaceX lost the upper stage of its Starship rocket on Thursday, the company said. It was the rocket's seventh orbital test ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX suspects a fire may have caused its Starship to break apart during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean.

A new version of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft was apparently destroyed during its first flight launch of 2025 that blasted off from south Texas on Thursday afternoon. "Starship experienced a rapid ...

WESH TWO BREVARD COUNTY REPORTER MEGHAN MORIARTY WATCHED THE SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH AND EXPLAINS HOW THIS PAVES THE WAY FOR FUTURE MISSIONS. ONE LIFTOFF. BEST 2 A.M. ON A THURSDAY MORNING. EVER.

The launch was a huge milestone for Blue Origin, which Bezos founded in 2000. It is a big step toward Blue Origin's ambitions of using reusable rockets to regularly carry satellites and NASA ...

Approval has been given for the first UK launch of a traditional "vertical" rocket. The critical clearance from the air safety regulator has taken the country a step closer to seeing its first ...

SpaceX's seventh Starship test flight will now launch no earlier than Thursday, Jan. 16, at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT). SpaceX is one day away from the launch its first Starship flight of 2025 ...

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 36 from the Kennedy Space Center ... [+] on its maiden flight, at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch occurred at 2:03 a.m. EST ...

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket achieved orbit on its long-awaited first launch Jan. 16, although the company failed in its attempt to recover the first stage. New Glenn lifted off ...

Thirteen minutes later, the rocket achieved the goal of reaching orbit, and as Bezos watched on from Mission Control, company employees cheered and applauded the successful launch. "We did it! Orbital ...

About 8.5 minutes after launch, communications between the ground and the upper-stage vehicle, which is known as Starship, were cut off. “We can confirm that we did lose the ship,” said Kate ...

Even so, the company’s first launch to orbit is a sign that Jeff Bezos’s space company is capable of challenging the current dominance of Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the private space launch business.