SpaceX Falcon 9 suffers in-flight catastrophic engine failure 02:24. SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites from California Thursday, but the engine powering the rocket's ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket suffered an upper stage engine failure after lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base late Thursday, a setback on a mission without astronauts on board that will ...

The new booster is is scheduled to launch on the ninth Artemis lunar mission in the 2030s — but there's a chance that it will ...

Thursday night’s accident was the first involving a Falcon 9 rocket since 2016, when one exploded on the launch pad during the loading of propellants for an engine firing test.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket fleet has been grounded by US regulators after the first failure of its main spacecraft in almost a decade. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it would ...

The company is developing a larger vehicle, named Helios, that could meaningfully improve the ability of SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy to transport large payloads to the Moon, Mars, and other ...

SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket was grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday after one broke apart in space and doomed its payload of Starlink satellites, the first failure in ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded July 11 evening, roughly an hour after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The upper engine’s rapid unscheduled disassembly (RUD) marked ...

A SpaceX Starship upper stage exploded during ramp-up to an expected engine test firing at the company's Starbase facility on ...

The timely detection of a "crack in an oxidizer line" in the first stage of the Falcon-9 rocket - which will take four astronauts, including India's Shubhanshu Shukla, to the International Space ...

The rocket is also reusable, flying back to a landing pad on the coast or to a ship at sea. But it has had problems in the past. In 2016, a Falcon 9 exploded on its launchpad during an engine test.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux/File) For the first time since 2016, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket experienced a catastrophic failure after a liquid ...