Hacker News with Generative AI: Rocket Launches

Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum, fails early in first stage flight (nasaspaceflight.com)
Isar Aerospace, based near Munich, Germany, made the first-ever launch attempt of its Spectrum two-stage rocket on Sunday, March 30, at 10:30 UTC from the Orbital Launch Pad at the Andøya Space Center in Norway.

Spaceflight, Germany, Startups, Rocket Launches

95 points by tretiy3 4 days ago | 57 comments

Days Since Starship Exploded counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now (theregister.com)
SpaceX's latest attempt to fly its Starship has again ended in a rapid unscheduled disassembly.

SpaceX, Starship, Space Exploration, Rocket Launches

19 points by beardyw 27 days ago | 28 comments

European rocket Ariane 6 launches on first commercial mission (france24.com)
Europe's new heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 blasted off on its first commercial mission Thursday, carrying with it the continent's hopes of bolstering its security and independent access to space.

Space Exploration, Europe, Rocket Launches, Commercial Space

9 points by the_mitsuhiko 28 days ago | 0 comments

Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Scrubbed After Delta Air Flies into Restricted Airspace (paddleyourownkanoo.com)
SpaceX was forced to scrub the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket with just 11 seconds to go on Sunday morning after a Delta Air Lines airplane reportedly flew into an area of restricted airspace close to the launch site.

SpaceX, Rocket Launches, Aviation Safety

48 points by fenced_load 72 days ago | 48 comments

Fire destroys Starship on its seventh test flight, raining debris from space (arstechnica.com)
SpaceX launched an upgraded version of its massive Starship rocket from South Texas on Thursday, but the flight ended less than nine minutes later after engineers lost contact with the spacecraft.

SpaceX, Space Exploration, Rocket Launches, Accidents

5 points by lisper 74 days ago | 0 comments

New Glenn to make another launch attempt early Thursday (arstechnica.com)
Blue Origin announced late on Monday afternoon that it planned to make a second attempt to launch the New Glenn rocket at 1 am ET (06:00 UTC) on Tuesday. But then, a couple of hours later, the company said it would move the launch to Thursday.

Space Exploration, Rocket Launches, Blue Origin

39 points by rbanffy 79 days ago | 26 comments

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket suffers anomaly during Starlink satellite launch (space.com)

SpaceX, Rocket Launches, Starlink, Satellites, Space Exploration

11 points by echoangle 265 days ago | 6 comments

Chinese reusable rocket Tianlong-3 accidentally launched during static test fire (twitter.com)