Rocket Lab joined the ranks of only a few private companies capable of sending rockets into space, debuting their innovative Electron rocket on Thursday in a long-awaited shakedown mission. However, the rocket fell short of reaching orbit, Rocket Lab said after the test flight.
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SpaceX continued to zero-in on the cause of the explosion of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket on September 1st atop a Cape Canaveral launch pad.
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SpaceX is continuing to narrow down the root cause of the Falcon 9 explosion on September 1st atop its Florida launch pad that had proven to be the most complex failure mechanism encountered in the company’s 14-year history.
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SpaceX narrowed the cause of the September 1 on-pad explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket to a large breach within the vehicle’s second stage cryogenic helium system, the California-based company said in a statement on Friday.
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Over a week has passed since the dramatic explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral and rocket manufacturer and operator SpaceX remains largely in the dark on what may have caused the destructive event.
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Israeli satellite operator and telecommunications provider Spacecom expects to receive compensation for the AMOS-6 satellite lost in last week’s Falcon 9 on-pad explosion from it insurers as well as SpaceX.
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While teams are picking up the pieces left of the Falcon 9 rocket after its dramatic on-pad explosion on Thursday, a relentless effort has gotten underway at SpaceX to trace back the root cause of the mishap that claimed the loss of the AMOS-6 communications satellite.
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SpaceX suffered a major setback on Thursday when the company’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded atop its Cape Canaveral SLC-40 launch pad during the countdown to what was expected to be a routine Static Fire Test to clear the rocket for a Saturday morning liftoff with the Israeli AMOS-6 satellite.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and its payload – a $195 million Israeli communications satellite – were destroyed in an on-pad explosion on Thursday during what was expected to be a routine ground test of the rocket ahead of a Saturday morning launch.
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A Chinese launch carried out from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Wednesday night likely ended in failure – the first in 2016.
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The Russian Volga Upper Stage and Kanopus ST submarine-tracking satellite are rapidly approaching an untargeted destructive re-entry after completing a significant orbit-lowering maneuver in response to the failed separation of the satellite following its arrival in a 690-Kilometer orbit on Saturday.
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Conducting its premiere launch, a Super Strypi rocket streaked into the afternoon skies over the island of Kauai, Hawaii on Tuesday in a long-awaited demonstration mission. Shortly after the rocket’s liftoff its flight pattern became erratic as the spin-stabilized launch vehicle appeared to enter an uncontrollable swaying motion that increased in rate before video of the launch cut out.
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