1st-ever orbital rocket launch from European soil falls to Earth and explodes seconds into flight

1st orbital rocket from Europe explodes seconds into flight | Space Quiz! How many astronaut missions have flown over Earth's poles? | This Week In Space: Episode 154 - The View From On High Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com | Web Version March 31, 2025 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE   The Launchpad (Isar Aerospace) 1st orbital rocket from Europe explodes seconds into flight Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30). The company's Spectrum rocket lifted off from Europe's Andøya Spaceport in Norway, but suffered an anomaly 18 seconds into the flight. Dramatic video from the launch shows the rocket tumbling just seconds into flight before plummeting to the icy ground below and exploding in a brilliant fireball. Read More Space Quiz! How many astronaut missions have flown over Earth's poles? Learn the answer here! 0 1 2 3 (This Week in Space) This Week In Space: Episode 154 - The View From On High On Episode 154 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Space TV director Liam Kennedy about bringing content and video from the International Space Station down to Earth. Watch Now Life is full of little mysteries Feeling curious? Live Science's weekly Life's Little Mysteries newsletter uses the latest scientific research to find the answers to extraordinary questions you hadn't even thought of yet. Sign up today ADVERTISEMENT Skywatching (Leon Neal/Getty Images) Solar eclipse puts on stunning show for skywatchers The partial solar eclipse of March 2025 did not disappoint as observers turned their eyes and cameras to the sky. Read More Spaceflight (NASA) Zena Cardman ready to command next SpaceX crew Zena Cardman didn't have to wait too long to get a seat on another spacecraft after being removed from SpaceX's Crew-9 mission last year. The NASA astronaut is one of the four members of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), agency officials announced on Thursday (March 27). Read More Science & Astronomy (NASA/Ames/JPL–Caltech) New super-Earth might have blown off its atmosphere A super-Earth that could explain the universe's mysterious lack of certain exoplanets has been found by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the planet-measuring ESPRESSO instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Read More SpaceX (FOODiQ Global) Fram2 will be the 1st to grow mushrooms in space The Fram2 crew will attempt to grow oyster mushrooms in microgravity as part of an experiment called Mission MushVroom, which is led by the Australian company FOODiQ Global. Mushrooms could offer a nutritious, delicious and sustainable food source for long-duration missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, according to a statement from the company. Read More Technology (Tsukamoto et al. 2025) Swarm could spot visitors zipping through our solar system Hiroyasu Tsukamota, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has developed a deep-learning-based guidance and control framework called Neural-Rendezvous that could allow spacecraft to safely encounter ISOs. The project, a collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tackles the two main challenges of approaching an ISO: the extraordinary speed of these objects and their poorly constrained trajectories. Read More   Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036