we can confirm we did lose the ship. "It looks like we lost contact a little under eight and a half minutes into the flight." Image: SpaceX's rocket made the test flight from a launch site in Boca ...

Note: This story first published in 2015, for the ride’s 40th anniversary. Compared to today’s mega thrill rides, Walt Disney World’s Space Mountain is a simple spin. No upside-down loops.

Strapped into a retro rocket ship, you blast through space for 2 1/2 minutes with no idea when the next drop or sharp turn is coming. You never do see the ride in full. Like the ambiguity of a ...

The company said they lost several engines and telemetry and that the ship had been lost. There were no astronauts on board the test flight mission. SpaceX added that the rocket used Thursday is a ...

Starship has a "flight termination system" which causes the rocket to explode if it veers off course. The breaking apart of the ship ensures that large chunks of the spacecraft don't pose threats ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket from a company site in Texas a little after 5:30 p.m. ET, the company’s seventh mission of a powerful-but-still-experimental vehicle that consists of a ...

In a post on his social media platform X, Musk said the main rocket’s failure might have been due to an oxygen or fuel leak in the firewall of the ship’s engine, adding: “Nothing so far ...

The rocket system's upper stage appears to have ... "Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure ...

The Super Heavy booster successfully landed using the "chopsticks" mechanism before the unmanned rocket was apparently ... lost contact with the uncrewed ship, later announcing the spacecraft ...

its gargantuan new-generation rocket. Blue Origin will now attempt to land New Glenn’s first-stage booster on a drone ship stationed about 1,000 kilometres downrange in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...