Australia’s first attempt to launch a home-made rocket into orbit ended in failure on Wednesday.The 23-metre Eris vehicle crashed just 14 seconds after take-off. The rocket rose briefly, gained some thrust, then came crashing down just seconds later.The test flight was carried out by Gilmour Space Technologies. The failed mission took place from a spaceport […]
A CNN analysis – an organisation that is equally berated by break-up bros Donald Trump and Elon Musk – summed up the current impasse, or Musk’s inability to dent Trump, with the line: “Politics isn’t rocket science. If it were, President Donald Trump might have something more to worry about in his reignited feud with […]
Gunmen aboard small boats launched a coordinated assault on a commercial vessel in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen on Sunday, using rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and small arms fire, according to international maritime monitors. British military officials later said the ship was taking on water and the crew was preparing to abandon the […]
WASHINGTON: The US Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll, according to a report this week in Stars and Stripes, an independent publication of the US military. The suspension came after Reuters reported that biologists and experts said the […]
In a sharp escalation of tensions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has threatened to take legal action against SpaceX over rocket debris and environmental contamination near the U.S.-Mexico border. The warning comes after a SpaceX Starship rocket exploded during a ground test at the company’s Starbase site in South Texas, causing concern […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches Bandwagon-3 mission, rocket returns safely (Picture credit: X/@SpaceX) The second sonic boom of the day echoed across Florida’s Space Coast on April 21 as a Falcon 9 booster safely returned to Cape Canaveral after lifting off with the Bandwagon-3 rideshare mission, SpaceX’s third such launch offering small satellite deployment services.The evening […]
Blue Origin successfully completed its 11th human spaceflight on Monday, sending an all-female crew — including pop star Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King, and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez — past the edge of space and bringing them safely back to Earth in a sub-orbital flight that lasted around 10 minutes.The rocket lifted off just […]
It was the first spaceflight to have an all-female crew since Valentina Tereshkova flew solo in 1963 for Soviet Union and became first woman to reach space. It included Katy Perry (L), Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez (bottom right) and Amanda Nguyen (AFP and Reuters) Broadcast journalist Gayle King and […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed his military to deliver a “strong response” after around ten rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, in the largest barrage since Israel resumed its offensive.As Netanyahu headed to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump, his office issued a statement confirming the prime minister had […]
Europe orbital rocket crash The first orbital rocket launch from mainland Europe ended in failure Sunday, when the vehicle exploded seconds after lift-off, hampering the continent’s aspirations in the commercial space sector.Footage showed the Spectrum rocket, built by German company Isar Aerospace, emitting smoke from its sides before plummeting to Earth with a fiery explosion […]
