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Starship blows up on IFT-8 test flight in consecutive failure

Starship blows up on IFT-8 test flight in consecutive failure

by David Todd | Mar 21, 2025 | Launches, NASA, Reliability Info, Seradata News, SpaceX, Suborbital

The Starship/Super Heavy suffered a serious launch failure during a suborbital flight test, for the second time in a row. Numerous observers in the Bahamas and at least one aircraft saw the Starship stage break up into fiery debris at nearly nine minutes after its...
Starship explodes mid-air on 7th test flight, but its Super Heavy booster manages ‘chopstick’ grab landing

Starship explodes mid-air on 7th test flight, but its Super Heavy booster manages ‘chopstick’ grab landing

by David Todd | Jan 17, 2025 | Launches, Reliability Info, Seradata News, SpaceX, Suborbital

SpaceX suffered a launch failure on the seventh test flight of Starship after an unexpected leak and the ensuing explosion led to its untimely end. Some commercial airlines were affected after concerns were raised about falling debris from the launch vehicle. SpaceX...
Profitable 2024 for space insurers does not make up for dire 2023

Profitable 2024 for space insurers does not make up for dire 2023

by David Todd | Jan 14, 2025 | Finance, Launches, Reliability Info, Space Insurance

Although the 2024 calendar year proved to be a highly profitable one for space insurers, the industry continued to reel from a revised US$1.3 billion net loss for 2023. Of the losses in 2023, most were relatively small sub-US$30 million claims. It was a series of...
2024 launch failure rate improves despite late losses

2024 launch failure rate improves despite late losses

by David Todd | Jan 3, 2025 | History, Launches, Reliability Info, Seradata News

Of the 259 orbital launch attempts made in 2024 (four Starship launches were excluded because they were sub-orbital), eight failed to achieve their correct orbits. This gave a failure rate of 3 per cent – relatively low compared with the previous year when it was 6...
Intelsat IS-33e comsat explodes into 500 pieces of debris

Intelsat IS-33e comsat explodes into 500 pieces of debris

by David Todd | Oct 22, 2024 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Space Insurance

A communications satellite in Intelsat’s Epic fleet created debris in space after it suffered an explosion in geostationary orbit at 0430 GMT on 19 October. Update on 29 October: Initial reports estimated that the event created 20 pieces of debris, but it was later...
SpaceX loses 20 Starlink satellites after a rare Falcon 9 upper stage leak/engine failure

SpaceX loses 20 Starlink satellites after a rare Falcon 9 upper stage leak/engine failure

by David Todd | Jul 12, 2024 | Launches, Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX

A routine launch of a Falcon 9 by SpaceX turned into anything but for the industry behemoth. At 0235 GMT on 12 July a Falcon 9 v1.2FT Block 5 rocket, carrying Starlink Group 9-3, rose from its launch pad at Vandenberg, California, US. The Starlinks onboard were a set...
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