TEL AVIV—Israel fired artillery at targets in Lebanon on Wednesday after four rockets were launched towards Israel from Lebanese territory, the Israeli military said. Israel’s missile defenses intercepted one of the projectiles and “the rest most likely fell in open areas,” the military said. The rockets caused air raid sirens to blare in the northern…
Israel Fires at South Lebanon in Response to Rocket Launches—Israeli Military
Israeli Troops Mass at Gaza Border Amid Rocket Fire, Air Strikes, Clashes in Israel
GAZA/JERUSALEM—Israeli troops massed at Gaza’s border on May 13 and Palestinian militants pounded Israel with rockets in intense hostilities that have caused international concern and touched off clashes between Jews and Arabs in Israel. Days of violence between Jewish Israelis and the country’s Arab minority worsened overnight, with synagogues attacked and fighting breaking out on…
Explainer—Why All the Fuss Over Falling Debris From China’s Most Powerful Rocket?
BEIJING—China launched into orbit last month the first piece of a permanent space station using its most powerful rocket, but international focus has fallen instead on the re-entry of debris which critics say has been shrouded in secrecy. What Happened? The Long March 5B rocket successfully delivered its payload into orbit on April 29, in…
NASA Criticizes China After Rocket Debris Burns Up, Falls Into Indian Ocean
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson criticized China for creating unnecessary risks as an uncontrolled core segment of its biggest rocket reentered Earth’s atmosphere and mostly burned up before landing in the Indian Ocean above the Maldives on May 9. “It is clear that China is failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris,” the former senator…
NASA Criticizes China After Rocket Debris Burns Up Over Indian Ocean
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Saturday criticized China after an uncontrolled core segment of its biggest rocket reentered Earth’s atmosphere above the Maldives in the Indian Ocean on Sunday. “It is clear that China is failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris,” the former senator said in a statement. China’s space agency said most…
No Plan to Shoot Down Chinese Rocket—Pentagon Chief
May 7, 2021
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Thursday there was no plan at this point to shoot down the remnants of a large Chinese rocket expected to plunge through the atmosphere this weekend. The Long March 5B rocket blasted off from China’s Hainan island on April 29, carrying the Tianhe module, which contains what will…
Israeli Army: Rocket From Gaza Hits Southern Israel
JERUSALEM—The Israeli military says a projectile fired from the Gaza Strip Thursday evening landed in the south of the country, breaking weeks of relative cross-border calm. There were no reports of damage or casualties. Sirens warning of incoming rockets sounded in the Negev Desert town of Sderot and its surroundings. In response, Israeli aircraft early…
SpaceX Starship SN11 Rocket Fails to Land Safely After Test Launch in Texas: SpaceX
An uncrewed SpaceX Starship prototype rocket failed to land safely on Tuesday after a test launch from Boca Chica, Texas, and engineers were investigating, SpaceX said. “We do appear to have lost all the data from the vehicle,” SpaceX engineer John Insprucker said in a webcast video of the rocket’s flight test. “We’re going to…
Rocket Debris Lights Up Skies Over the Pacific Northwest
SEATTLE—Burning debris from a rocket lit up Pacific Northwest skies Thursday night, the National Weather Service in Seattle said. “The widely reported bright objects in the sky were debris from a Falcon 9 rocket 2nd stage that did not successfully have a deorbit burn,” the service said in a tweet about the astral occurrence that…
Russia Postpones Soyuz-2.1A Rocket Launch to Sunday: RIA
MOSCOW—Russia has postponed the launch of its Soyuz-2.1a rocket to Sunday, state news agency RIA quoted Roscosmos space agency Director General Dmitry Rogozin as saying on Saturday. Rogozin said the decision to postpone from Saturday was made after a voltage spike ahead of the planned launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, RIA reported. The…
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