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Reentry mishap similar to that suffered by Soyuz 5 in 1969. The service module failed to completely separate from the reentry vehicle and caused it to face the wrong way during the early portion of aerobraking. As with Soyuz 5, the service module eventually separated and the reentry vehicle completed a rough but survivable landing.
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A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellites in an orbit so low that they're doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up. The ...
Starship test flight: SpaceX Starship splashes down after 6th launch; booster catch called off Nov. 19, 2024: Trump in attendance; booster catch called off. The most recent Starship flight test ...
A record-extending launch. Tuesday 19 November 2024 18:43, Anthony Cuthbertson. Today’s launch will be 119th rocket that SpaceX has sent to space this year, marking a new record for the private ...
The 1980 Plesetsk launch pad disaster was the explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket carrying a Tselina-D satellite during fueling at Site 43/4 of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the town of Mirny in the Soviet Union at 19:01 local time (16:01 UTC) on 18 March 1980, two hours and fifteen minutes before the intended launch time.
Kosmos 2251 was launched on a Russian Cosmos-3M carrier rocket on June 16, 1993. [2] This satellite had been deactivated prior to the collision, and remained in orbit as space debris. The other spacecraft, Iridium 33, was a 560-kilogram (1,200 lb) U.S.-built commercial satellite that was part of the Iridium constellation for satellite phones. [2]
Follow The Post’s live updates and watch live video as Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to launch its Starship rocket from Texas with President-elect Donald Trump there to watch.