A rocket engine has exploded during a launch test at the UK's new spaceport in Shetland. The test was being carried out by German company Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) who hope to eventually ...

A rocket engine has exploded during a test launch at a spaceport in Shetland. German rocket manufacturer Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) said no-one was injured in the incident at SaxaVord Spaceport ...

A rocket engine has exploded during a launch test at the UK's new spaceport in Shetland on Monday evening. The test was being carried out by German company Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) who hope ...

A rocket manufacturer is to "pause" construction of a spaceport in Sutherland to instead focus its launch efforts in Shetland ...

In a discreet forest clearing on a plateau above the town of Vernon in Normandy, France, workers adjust a steel cylinder held ...

A test of an engine for Japan's upcoming Epsilon rocket ended in an explosion on Tuesday (Nov. 26), the second time in less than two years that this engine has met an untimely end during testing.

Engineers at Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center in the southwest of the country were testing the engine for a flagship rocket ... from Tanegashina that the explosion occurred 49 seconds into ...

A space startup plans to launch its second rocket in December after the first one exploded immediately after liftoff in March, an executive said. Space One Co. identified the cause of the ...

Scottish rocket company Orbex has announced it will pause work on its Sutherland spaceport in favour of launching from rival spaceport SaxaVord ...