Reuters Israeli strikes hit Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, from where the military said rockets had been fired Israel has carried out fresh air strikes on Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered retaliation for one of the heaviest barrages of rocket-fire by Hamas in months. The Israeli military said about half of the 10…
Hugo Bachega BBC Middle East correspondent Reuters IDF soldiers guard in the norther Israeli town of Metula, on the border with Lebanon. File photo Israel has warned it will “respond severely” after rockets were fired from Lebanon – the first since a bilateral ceasefire deal came into effect in November. Sirens were heard in the…
Watch: Moment SpaceX launches rocket with crew to relieve stranded astronauts SpaceX has launched a rocket carrying a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a plan to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home. The pair were due to be on the ISS for only eight days, but because…
A SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after it was launched from Texas on Thursday, grounding flights and triggering warnings about falling spaceship debris. SpaceX confirmed the un-crewed ship had suffered “a rapid unscheduled disassembly” during its ascent into space, and lost contact with the ground. The massive SpaceX Starship, the largest rocket ever created, spun out…
Fireball spotted in sky over Pocklington East Yorkshire before the debris crashed into eastern Europe At about 03:30 GMT on Wednesday, the sky across northern Europe was illuminated by a object zooming through the air in flames. “I immediately thought of a sci-fi movie where it looked like a troop formation about to attack,” Simon…
Watch: Lift-off for Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin as rocket New Glenn launches into orbit Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space company has blasted its first rocket into orbit in a bid to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The New Glenn rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 02:02 local time…
By Mike Stone L3Harris unit making rocket motors used in Ukraine says business has surged HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, – L3Harris Technologies’ subsidiary Aerojet Rocketdyne has doubled its monthly production of motors for GMLRS rockets that are heavily used in Ukraine, a company executive said on Tuesday, as global demand surges to supply Kyiv and to rebuild…
