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NASA Artemis rocket booster suffers alarming anomaly in key test

The latest test of a next-generation rocket booster for NASA’s Artemis moon program ended with a violent structural failure, ...

Rocket Report: Chinese rockets fail twice in 12 hours; Rocket Lab reports setback

Six months after its first orbital rocket cleared the launch tower for just 14 seconds before crashing back to Earth, Gilmour ...
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NASA hopes to launch Artemis 2 astronauts to the moon next month, but it's going to be tight: 'This is not a rush'

NASA hopes to launch its crewed Artemis 2 moon mission in early February, but everything will have to go right to hit that ...

NASA moves moon rocket to launch pad ahead of Artemis 2 mission

NASA on Saturday rolled out its towering SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft as it began preparations for its first crewed ...

Rocket Report: Ariane 64 to debut soon; India has a Falcon 9 clone too?

A growing cadence … The Ariane 6 rocket has launched five times, including its debut flight in July 2024. All of the launches ...

Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX's starship could transform astronomy by making space telescopes cheaper

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...