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Fragments of the rocket started a forest fire nearby, and a Blok D strap-on booster caused damage to the launchpad. [114] 22 August 2003: Alcântara Launch Center, Brazil: 21: VLS-1: VLS-1 V03: Explosion of an uncrewed rocket during launch preparations [115] 26 July 2007: Mojave Spaceport, California: 3: engine test for SpaceShipTwo
Approximately 75 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel. One rocket hit the ground injuring three people in Tamra, including a woman who was critically injured. [365] The IDF said that it shot dead a Palestinian who tried to carry out a ramming and stabbing attack targeting soldiers in the vicinity of Hizma. [366]
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:
Debris, as well as fires caused by a rocket crash, could pose risks to wildlife, environmentalist says. ... The Today Show. 50 broccoli recipes for a boost of greens. Lighter Side. Lighter Side.
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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 ...
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.
October 28: The Cygnus Orb-3 cargo spacecraft fails to orbit after its Antares rocket explodes. An uncontained failure in one of the rocket's NK-33 first stage engines caused the vehicle to collapse back on the launch pad, destroying the rocket, spacecraft, and cargo, as well as causing significant damage to the launch complex. No personnel ...