Kairos failed on Wednesday (March 4), as it did on its first two launches. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...

The third launch of a small launch vehicle developed by a Japanese company failed shortly after liftoff March 4, raising ...

A Firefly Aerospace rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base today may be visible across the West Coast, including Arizona.

Updated at 1:30 p.m. ET Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR shows that an Iranian rocket appears to have exploded on the launch pad Thursday. The imagery from the commercial company and ...

Japan’s private rocket company Space One watched its Kairos vehicle fail for the third consecutive time on March 5, 2026, ...

The launch of Japanese startup Space One Co.'s Kairos No. 3 small rocket carrying satellites ended in failure Thursday, following the unsuccessful launches of the No. 1 and No. 2 units in 2024. If ...

On the Feb 12, 2026 USSF-87 launch, one of Vulcan’s four Northrop Grumman GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters (SRBs) suffered a nozzle burn-through (visible fiery ...

SpaceX plans two Falcon 9 missions to deploy its Starlink internet satellites. Firefly Aerospace is scheduled for a return-to-flight test mission after a previous launch failure. Launch schedules are ...

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO, March 5 (Reuters) - Japan's Space One said its Kairos small rocket self-destructed 69 seconds after lift-off on Thursday, failing to achieve the country's first entirely ...

Welcome to Edition 8.33 of the Rocket Report! NASA officials seem optimistic about launching the Artemis II mission next month, so confident that they will forgo another fueling test on the Space ...