A SpaceX rocket suffered a last-second abort during the attempted launch of 22 Starlink internet satellites from Florida on Friday afternoon (June 14). The SpaceX booster, a workhorse Falcon 9 rocket that has flown 15 times before, aborted its liftoff while igniting its nine first-stage engines at 5:07 p.m. EDT (2107 GMT) atop the Space […]
Two jets briefly clipped wings while performing an aerial stunt during the Fort Lauderdale Airshow, on May 12, spectator video shows. Footage captured by @‌frograilfanning shows two planes, in a four-jet formation, briefly touch wings before the pilots quickly split away to avoid catastrophe. Speaking to Storyful, @‌frograilfanning said the incident occurred when the Polaris […]
On May 13, 1964, NASA launched the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft. This uncrewed mission would demonstrate that the launch escape system could safely eject the Apollo command module in case of an emergency. For the first test, the command module ejected just above the launchpad 15 seconds after liftoff. But the second […]
A Russian Soyuz rocket is now scheduled to send three astronauts toward the ISS on Saturday (March 23), two days after a rare abort scuttled its first try. The rocket was supposed to launch the crewed Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on Thursday (March 21) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. That attempt was aborted just 21 seconds […]
Update for 1 p.m. ET: The abort of today’s Soyuz launch may have been due to a dead battery. “The reason has been identified, we just discovered at a meeting of the state commission that the reason was a voltage drop in the chemical current source,” Roscosmos General Director Yuri Borisov said in a statement […]
MANCHESTER, England – Storm Pia brought ferocious winds to parts of England Thursday, creating havoc at some of the region’s airports. Video from just outside Manchester’s airport by Simon Whittaker shows two jets that had a harrowing attempt at a landing amid wind gusts of 40-50 mph.  As gusts buffeted the planes just before they […]