{"id":1237732,"date":"2025-03-07T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237732"},"modified":"2025-03-07T07:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:00:45","slug":"rocket-report-starship-fails-for-a-second-time-whats-to-blame-for-vulcan-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237732","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Report: Starship fails for a second time; what\u2019s to blame for Vulcan delays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Welcome to Edition 7.34 of the Rocket Report! What a day in space Thursday was. During the morning hours we saw the triumphant second flight of the Ariane 6 rocket, a pivotal moment for European sovereignty in space. Then Intuitive Machines had a partially successful landing on the Moon. And finally, on Thursday evening, SpaceX&#8217;s Starship failed during its second consecutive test flight.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.wufoo.com\/forms\/launch-stories\/\">welcome reader submissions<\/a>, and if you don&#8217;t want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"ars-img-shortcode id-1314289 align-center\">\n<div>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"81\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/smalll.png\" class=\"center full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/smalll.png 560w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/smalll-300x43.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\">\n                  <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Firefly sets date for next Alpha launch<\/strong>. Having completed a static-fire test, <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyspace.com\/news\/firefly-aerospace-ready-to-launch-alpha-flta006-for-lockheed-martins-lm-400-spacecraft-no-earlier-than-march-15\/\">Firefly Aerospace has set<\/a> a target date of March 15 for the launch of its &#8220;Message in a Booster&#8221; mission. The Alpha rocket will launch Lockheed Martin\u2019s LM 400 spacecraft from Vandenberg Space Force Base, with the 52-minute launch window opening at 6:25 am PT (14:25 UTC). Lockheed is self-funding the demonstration mission of its new satellite bus, the LM 400, which it says can serve civil, military, and commercial customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/03\/rocket-report-starship-fails-for-a-second-time-whats-to-blame-for-vulcan-delays\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/03\/rocket-report-starship-fails-for-a-second-time-whats-to-blame-for-vulcan-delays\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Edition 7.34 of the Rocket Report! What a day in space Thursday was. During the morning hours we saw the triumphant second flight of the Ariane 6 rocket, a pivotal moment for European sovereignty in space. Then Intuitive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237732\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}