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WASHINGTON: Amazon.com Inc  plans to launch its first pair of prototype internet satellite s late next month on a different rocket than previously planned, a spokesman said on Monday, again switch ing rides for the spacecraft to avoid mounting rocket delays. The company will launch the first two satellites for Amazon's Kuiper program, which aims to offer internet globally from space, aboard a dedicated Atlas V rocket from the Boeing-Lockheed, joint venture United Launch Alliance (ULA), spokesman James Watkins said. The targeted launch date is Sept. 26, he said. Amazon last year announced plans to launch the satellite pair aboard the first flight of ULA's new Vulcan rocket, moving them off previously planned rockets from launch startup ABL Space to avoid delays in ABL's rocket development. But delays with Vulcan have prompted Amazon to again switch rides as the e-commerce giant faces a 2026 regulatory deadline to deploy half of the 3,200 satelli...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has success fully launch ed its next-generation Starship cruise vessel for the first time atop the company’s powerful new Super Heavy rocket . The uncrewed test flight ended minutes later with the vehicle exploding in the sky. The two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 120m high, blasted off from the company’s Starbase spaceport and test facility east of Brownsville, Texas. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> SpaceX hoped it would be, at best, a 90-minute debut flight into space but just shy of Earth orbit. A live SpaceX webcast of the lift-off showed the rocketship rising from the launch tower into the morning sky as the Super Heavy’s raptor engines roared to life in a ball of flame and billowing clouds of exhaust and water vapour. But less than four minutes into the flight, the upper-stage Starship failed to separate as designed from the lower-stage Super Heavy, and the combined vehicle was seen fli...