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Jan 21
New version of Starship fails and re-enters minutes after launch
On January 16th, 2025, SpaceX launched it huge Starship rocket for its 7th test flight from Starbase in Texas. The launch was the first flight of a new upper stage: the Block 2 Ship. It has a different forward flap design, a 25% increase in propellant capacity, redesigned avionics, an upgraded thermal protection system and …
Jan 08
Final launch from China in 2024 does not reach orbit
On December 27th, 2024 China made its 68th and last launch attempt of the year. A Kinetica-1 (Lijian-1) rocket was launched at 01:03 UTC from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province.The initial launch of the solid propelled rocket went well as the first and second stage performed as expected. The third stage lost …
Dec 28
Japanese commercial rocket Kairos fails for the 2nd time
On December 17, 2024, Japanese startup Space One, launched its Kairos rocket for the second time.At first, the launch from Spaceport Kii seemed to go well, however, the vehicle appeared to lose attitude control around two minutes after lift-off. It seemed to tumble and created a corkscrew contrail. Several hours after lift-off, Space One officials …
Dec 02
Welcome to LaunchFailures.net
Hi there! Thanks for visiting my new website.I will try to keep you updated on recent rocket launch failures here.Gradually I will add content about launch failures in the past years too.