12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025

Starship debris from SpaceX’s IFT-7 test mission falls through the sky on Jan. 16, 2025. (Image credit: Dean Olson via Twitter) 2025 was a very busy year for spaceflight, for better and for worse. We saw quite a few milestones notched in the final frontier this year, including the first-ever fully successful private moon landingContinue Reading

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The Secretary of the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) abrupt cessation of all leases for major offshore wind electric generation facilities under construction is not legally defensible and raises significant conflict of interest issues, according to a letter Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) sent to congressional committees today.Last week,Continue Reading

LG Energy Solution To Sell Ohio Battery  Facility To Honda For $2.85 Billion

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution has agreed to sell the building and fixed-asset components of its Ohio electric vehicle battery plant to Honda Development and Manufacturing of America for ?4.22 trillion ($2.85 billion), according to company disclosures cited by Yahoo Finance. The facility is part of the $4.4 billion battery manufacturing joint venture between LGContinue Reading

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Video released by the Ukrainian military showed soldiers shooting down small Russian drones with their rifles., NewsFeed Video released by the Ukrainian military showed soldiers shooting down small Russian drones with their rifles near the small Donetsk village of Kostiantynivka. Russian forces have made steady yet costly gains in theContinue Reading

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Haybat al-Halbousi, from the Taqaddum (Progress) Party, has been elected as speaker of the new parliament., Haybat al-Halbousi, from the Taqaddum (Progress) Party, has been elected as speaker of the new parliament. Iraq’s ‍newly ‍elected parliament has chosen Haybat al-Halbousi as its speaker, a significant step in the formation ofContinue Reading