SpaceX's latest Starship launch from Texas ended in an uncontrolled spin before completing key mission goals, highlighting fresh challenges for Elon Musk’s ambitious Mars program.
The 400-foot Starship rocket, central to Musk’s vision of human space travel to Mars, launched from SpaceX’s Starbase in Texas but failed to achieve some critical objectives. Despite reaching beyond previous flight attempts, the lower-stage booster lost contact during descent and crashed into the sea instead of performing a controlled splashdown. The upper stage entered suborbital space but began spinning uncontrollably after about 30 minutes, causing the cancellation of a planned deployment of eight mock Starlink satellites.
Musk attributed the loss of control to a leak in the rocket’s primary fuel tank. Although the mission provided valuable data, these setbacks add hurdles to SpaceX’s fast-paced development plan, which aims for frequent launches every three to four weeks. The Starship is vital not only for Mars missions but also for NASA’s upcoming lunar program and replacing Falcon 9 as SpaceX’s main commercial launch vehicle.
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A landslide on the French Pacific island of Tahiti has claimed at least seven lives, with several others reported missing, local authorities confirmed on Thursday.
magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Susitna, northwest of Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank during a raid, despite the men appearing to surrender and being unarmed.
Pope Leo continued his visit to Türkiye in Istanbul on Thursday (27 November), following a round of meetings in Ankara. This marks his first trip outside Italy since being elected in May as the leader of the 1.4-billion-strong Catholic Church.
Venezuela says it has deployed a range of weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, and plans to mount guerrilla-style resistance in the event of an air or ground assault particularly from the U.S.
A passenger aircraft from Polish carrier LOT veered off a taxiway at Lithuania's Vilnius airport after arriving from Warsaw on Wednesday, halting all traffic, the airport operator said.
The Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar region erupted on Sunday morning (23 November), covering nearby villages in ash.
At least 36 people have died in a fire that ravaged a residential apartment complex on Wednesday according to John Lee the chief executive of Hong Kong.
Netflix crashed on Wednesday for about an hour in the U.S. as it launched season five of "Stranger Things", with the service becoming inaccessible to many subscribers within minutes of the episodes going live at 8 p.m. local time.
Russia successfully launched a military satellite into space on Wednesday (November 26) from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, marking another milestone in the country's expanding space capabilities.
China's first emergency space launch entered orbit after blasting off on Tuesday, as the country looks to plug safety risks at its crewed space station after a vessel was damaged in orbit earlier this month.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a new federal programme to accelerate American artificial intelligence research and applications.
Audi has unveiled the car that marks its first major step into Formula One. It presented the 2026 challenger at a launch event in Munich attended by drivers, team leaders and senior company executives.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin has launched NASA’s twin ESCAPADE satellites to Mars on Sunday, marking the second flight of its New Glenn rocket, a mission seen as a crucial test of the company’s reusability ambitions and a fresh challenge to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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