The first stage of Firefly Aerospace's 96-foot-tall Alpha rocket exploded while the spacecraft was vertical on a test stand in Briggs, Texas. Firefly made a name for itself in 2025 when its Blue Ghost ...

An experimental SpaceX rocket exploded at the end of a high-altitude test flight Tuesday, but heavy fog at the site left even SpaceX at least publicly uncertain about exactly what caused the explosion ...

Firefly Aerospace has confirmed that the first stage of its Alpha Flight 7 rocket exploded during a test in Texas Monday, just weeks after the company was cleared to resume launches from Vandenberg ...

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But SpaceX, per the documents, did not alert the FAA to the explosion until 15 minutes after that. U.S. launch operators are required to report mishaps to the FAA so that air traffic controllers (ATCs ...

A midair explosion of SpaceX’s (SPACE) Starship rocket in January created a serious and largely undisclosed threat to commercial aircraft flying over the Caribbean, forcing multiple pilots to make ...

We recently published 11 Stocks Failing to Keep up With The Market. Firefly Aerospace Inc. (NASDAQ:FLY) is one of the top performers on Tuesday. Firefly saw its share prices nosedive by 20.67 percent ...

Video of the event shows a blast erupting from the bottom half of the 20-story-tall craft as SpaceX was performing structural tests in the predawn darkness. The Super Heavy booster, dubbed Booster 18, ...

In October 1960, a rushed Soviet missile test triggered a catastrophic explosion that killed over a hundred people and was concealed from the world for decades. Drawing on declassified records and ...