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In April 2023, Space Pioneer launched a kerosene-oxygen rocket, the Tianlong-2, becoming the first private Chinese firm to send a liquid-propellant rocket into space.
It was the first flight of this new and upgraded spacecraft. SpaceX had packed it with 10 dummy satellites for practice at releasing them. SpaceX catches its colossal Starship rocket at launch pad ...
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A new version of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft was apparently destroyed during its first flight launch of 2025 that blasted off from south Texas on Thursday afternoon.
Explosion in rocket manufacturing room of Reinhold Tiling [95] 16 July 1934: Kummersdorf, Germany: 3: A1: Research project under the supervision of Walter Dornberger killed Kurt Wahmke and two assistants as part of the Aggregat rocket development, during a fuel test of a premixed hydrogen peroxide/alcohol propellant when the fuel tank exploded ...
Accidental collision with a fragment from the Zenit-2 rocket body that launched Tselina-2 in 1996. [17] 39: 20: 19 November 15, 2021: Kosmos 1408: 1982-092A: ASAT (Anti-Satellite) weapon system test: 1787: 394: 1393 November 12, 2022: Long March 6A upper stage: 2022-151B: Unknown; but may be related to upper stage passivization or insulation ...
2020: The empty core stage of a Chinese Long March-5B rocket made an uncontrolled re-entry - the largest object to do so since the Soviet Union's 39-ton Salyut 7 space station in 1991 – over Africa and the Atlantic Ocean and a 12-meter-long pipe originating from the rocket crashed into the village of Mahounou in Côte d'Ivoire. [21] 2021:
After the rocket lost communication, social media users posted photos and videos of what appeared to be fireballs in the sky near the Caribbean islands. Starship’s launch trajectory takes it due ...