During Alpha's ascent, a company livestream of the flight showed several pieces of debris flying off the rocket. On-screen altitude and speed data disappeared moments before, earlier than usual.

The sixth launch of Firefly Aerospace 's Alpha rocket also ended in failure. The rocket lifted off on Tuesday at 7:07 am IST ...

In a remarkable display of space activity, six rockets were launched within 18 hours on April 28-29, 2025, setting a new record. Missions from the US, ...

In just 100 days under the Trump-Vance administration, NASA has rocketed ahead with an ambitious new space agenda. From the safe return of astronauts and new space station crew launches to ...

While typical rocket mishaps trigger explosions or on-board shutdown commands, Alpha’s upper rocket body fired for several ...

The “Message in a Booster’ mission to deliver a Lockheed Martin payload to low Earth orbit suffered an “anomaly” on Tuesday following two days of delays.

Stormtracker 16 Meteorologist Jeremy Lewan interviewed a NASA scientist to break down what we may be able to learn from two ...

Have you ever noticed that rockets tend to launch from the east coast of the U.S.? There is actually a reason for that, and ...

The Firefly Aerospace sixth Alpha rocket experienced in-flight troubles more than 2 minutes after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base Tuesday ...

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha #FLTA006 "Message in a Booster" mission failed Tuesday morning during first stage separation that ...