Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded Thursday night during a hot-fire test at a Space Force launch facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Led by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin is working on reusable rockets and launch services to rival those offered by Elon Musk‘s SpaceX. A hot-fire test is conducted on the ground with…
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An aerial view of the Blue Origin manufacturing facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US. Brendan McDermid/Reuters An uncrewed Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on the launchpad during a test on Thursday, in a major setback for Jeff Bezos’s space venture as it seeks to narrow the gap with Elon…
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday night. The space technology company, which was founded in 2000 by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, said there were no injuries from the incident. “All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more,”…
Starlink satellites being blasted into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a file photograph SpaceX is no longer merely dominant in space. It has built something closer to a private monopoly on low-Earth orbit – and its listing prospectus, filed in the US on Wednesday, lays out plans to entrench that position by…
A SpaceX Super Heavy booster carrying the Starship spacecraft lifts off on its 11th test flight at the company’s launch pad in Starbase, Texas, last year. Steve Nesius/Reuters Elon Musk is touting SpaceX as humanity’s ticket to Mars. But the company’s pitch to investors for a potentially historic IPO reveals that its main business will…
Lebanon’s health ministry says 31 people were killed by Israeli strikes, while there are no reports of casualties in Israel.
Tertius Zitzke JSE-listed 4Sight Holdings has reported a sharp rise in profits for the first half of its 2026 financial year, powered by its AI solutions. For the six months to 31 August 2025, group revenue climbed 6.8% to R578.7-million from R542-million a year earlier, while operating profit surged 35.7% to R48.3-million. Gross profit rose…
Georgina Rannard Science correspondent Watch: SpaceX Starship completes successful test flight SpaceX has pulled off a successful test flight of its newest generation rocket Starship, reversing a trend of disappointing failures. The world’s largest and most powerful rocket blasted off from Texas just after 18:30 local time (00:30 BST) for a nail-biting 60-minute flight. Parts…
The entrance to the SpaceX rocket launch area in Brownsville, Texas. Veronica Gabriela Cardenas/Reuters US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to streamline federal regulation governing commercial rocket launches, a move that could benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other private space ventures. Trump’s order, among other things, directs the US transportation secretary…
