Nasa’s Boeing rocket just propelled astronauts farther into space than ever before, but the Trump administration is looking to competitors for a replacement. About a week before the $24 billion Space Launch System (SLS) pushed the four crew members of the Artemis II mission around the moon, Nasa asked Boeing rivals what options they could […]
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, center right, and his daughter, center left, attend a live-fire test of multiple rocket launch systems, at an undisclosed place in North Korea Saturday, March 14. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) North Korea tested nuclear-capable rocket launchers, state […]
Early risers along Florida’s Space Coast were treated to something unusual on Wednesday morning. As the first light of dawn crept over the Atlantic, a rocket streaked into the sky and left behind a glowing cloud that looked almost otherworldly. For a few minutes, the shape drifting across the sky resembled a giant jellyfish floating […]
As conflicts from Venezuela to West Asia drive a renewed surge in US demand for missiles and munitions, a less visible but increasingly critical bottleneck is emerging deep inside the American defence supply chain. The problem is not a lack of missile designs or prime contractors, but a growing shortage of solid rocket motors and, […]
Blue Origin has postponed the much-anticipated launch of its New Glenn rocket carrying NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes to Mars. Originally scheduled for Sunday, 9 November 2025, the launch was called off due to unfavourable weather conditions at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 36. This delay comes just one day before new federal restrictions for commercial spaceflights […]
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 […]
