BEIJING, Aug 11 (Reuters) - China said a Long March 7A rocket carrying the ChinaSat-4B satellite failed after an in-flight anomaly following liftoff from the Wenchang space launch site in the southern island province of Hainan on Monday.

Both missions will use a Falcon 9 rocket to deploy Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit. The first launch, on Monday, July 20, will be the 50th launch of the year from the base. A second launch is scheduled for Friday, July 24, with both ...

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Rockets and their launches are built with multiple redundancies to ensure safety, but can they survive the intensity of a direct lightning strike?

The partially reusable rocket is crucial to China’s efforts to compete with industry giants like SpaceX. Earlier in July, a Long March 10B launched on its maiden flight and its first stage was caught by a net-like grid system at sea, marking China’s first recovery of a rocket booster.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Rocket Lab said it has developed a containerized launch system for its Electron and HASTE rockets, an effort to make it easier to operate the vehicles from locations beyond the company’s permanent launch sites and give military customers more options for orbital and hypersonic test missions.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has launched an H3 rocket and decoupled a positioning satellite from the space vehicle on Tuesday. This has marked the second successful launch in a row of Japan's flagship rocket after a failure last December.

China’s Long March 7A rocket was destroyed roughly 85 seconds after liftoff on August 10, 2026, wiping out a mission carrying the Zhongxing-4B communications satellite and raising questions about a launcher connected to China’s broader space infrastructure.