Space malfunctions

The moment of the malfunction that caused the Starship spacecraft to break apart during the eighth test, March 6, 2025. Screenshot, SpaceX

SpaceX Starship explodes again

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SpaceX Starship explodes again
The Starliner spacecraft is attached to the International Space Station. Photo: NASA

NASA has decided to return the astronauts stuck in the SpaceX spacecraft; the Starliner will return to space unmanned

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Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which flew NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams on a manned test flight to the International Space Station, is seen docked at the front dock of the Harmony Module. The image was taken from the window of SpaceX's Dragon Endeavor spacecraft docked in the port adjacent to the Starliner. Credit: NASA A

Is the Starliner spacecraft stuck in space? NASA answers frequently asked questions about the status of the astronauts' return

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NASA is expected to make a decision by the end of August when and how to return the two astronauts stuck on the space station
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore upon their arrival at the International Space Station. Photo: NASA

Difficulty sleeping and the mismatch between Boeing's spacesuits and SpaceX's. The astronauts are still lost in space

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NASA faces dilemmas over return of astronauts stranded in space following malfunctions in Boeing's Starliner mission
Boeing performed a hot ignition of 27 engines on the Starliner. Photo: NASA

Boeing performs critical Starliner engine test as NASA plans astronaut return

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Starliner mission commander Butch Williams and astronaut Sunita Williams on the International Space Station, July 10, 2024. Photo: NASA Television

The astronauts who arrived on the Starliner spacecraft may remain on the space station until August

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Last week, the spacecraft commander performed a manual flight test to test the Starliner's performance, and it performed well without part of the thrusters. At the same time, Boeing is conducting experiments on identical propellers, to try to locate the
Dr. Ido Entavi, head of the master's degree program in systems engineering at Afka, the Academic College of Engineering in Tel Aviv. Photo: David Perathi.

The Peregrine crash and the series of failures: Ido Entavi, former CEO of SPACEIL: a failure in the systemic planning

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Entavi, currently head of the systems engineering program at Afka College, Entavi emphasizes the importance of systemic planning in complex projects. He also told about the meeting that made Berashit the prototype of the moon landings in the tenders of
Artemis II crew members (from left) CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Weisman, exit the astronaut crew quarters in the Neil Armstrong Building to the Artemis crew transport facilities, before traveling to Launch Pad 39B As part of the Integrated Ground Systems Experiment at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Wednesday, September 20, to test the crew's schedule on launch day. Now they will have to wait another year for the actual flight. NASA photo

The moon will have to wait another year

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NASA postpones the Artemis 2 and 3 missions by a year to 2025 and 2026 respectively. The reason: repeated failures. One of them occurred this week - the fuel leak from the lunar lander intended for Peregrine
The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed on April 25, 1990 from the high-redundancy space shuttle Discovery. Hubble's location outside the distortions of the atmosphere gives it an unfettered view of stars, planets, and galaxies out to a distance of more than 13.4 billion light-years. Photo: NASA / Smithsonian / Lockheed Corporation

A computer glitch disabled the Hubble Space Telescope

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NASA is working to solve a problem with the Hubble Space Telescope's computer. The computer stopped working on Sunday, June 13, shortly after 16:00 p.m. (23:00 p.m. Israel time). This is already the second malfunction of the aging telescope this year
Screenshot from the moment the SN8 spacecraft crashed during a test flight in Texas, 9/12/2020. Photo: SPACEX

SpaceX's Starship 8 spacecraft crashed tonight during a test landing in Texas (video)

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SN8, a prototype of a spacecraft that is supposed to transport humans to Mars, took off and even circled in the air but did not succeed in the landing phase apparently due to low fuel pressure in the central tank, which caused
The Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft as photographed on August 24, 2019 during its docking attempt at the space station. Photo: NASA

An unmanned spacecraft failed to dock at the International Space Station. Another attempt - Tuesday morning

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The moment of the announcement of the anomaly in the launch of a Vega-type launcher, about two minutes after the launch, and shortly after the activation of the second stage. In the graph on the right you can see the deviation of the launcher from its intended course, towards a crash. Screenshot from the official broadcast of Ariane.

Vega launcher exploded two minutes after launch * UAE photography satellite lost

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A selfie sent by the Genesis spacecraft from 22 km above the moon during the landing process that ultimately failed. Photo by SPACEIL and the Aerospace Industry.

The Genesis spaceship crashed when it fell at high speed from a height of ten kilometers

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A simulation of the spacecraft's trajectory in the beginning until the encounter with the moon. Illustration: SpaceIL and the Aerospace Industry.

First serious malfunction of the Bereshit spacecraft on the way to the moon: a sudden reboot of the computer caused the cancellation of an orbital maneuver

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Astronaut Michael Hague and cosmonaut Alexei Ovechinin experience tremors during the emergency landing in Kazakhstan after a launch malfunction. Screenshot from NASA TV

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two crew members made an emergency landing in Kazakhstan after a launcher malfunction; They are in good condition;

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The landing stages of Shipriley on Mars, as planned by the European Space Agency. Figure: ESA

"Accidents in space are inevitable. We should learn from them but not be deterred"

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The Falcon 9 takes off in yesterday's launch, and in its nose the most secret cargo "Zuma". Source: SpaceX.

The secret Zuma satellite launched by SpaceX was apparently lost and burned up in the atmosphere

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The Long March 5 launcher takes off after the launch at the Wenchang Spaceport on Hainan Island in China, yesterday at 14:23 (Israel time). Source: Xinhua.

The launch of the Chinese Long March 5 missile failed

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The Schiaparelli impact crater on Mars. Source: NASA.

First close-up images of the Schiaparelli impact crater on Mars

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The image taken by NASA's MRO probe. The black dot is the estimated impact site, and at the bottom of the image you can see a white dot that represents the lander's parachute. These two dots do not appear in a previous photograph of the same area, taken by the probe in May. Source: Nas A.

The crash site of the Martian lander Schiaparelli has been discovered

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The landing stages of Shipriley on Mars, as planned by the European Space Agency. Figure: ESA

Lost contact with Shipriley landing on Mars; The Exo Mars rover has safely entered its orbit

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Insight Landing. NASA source

NASA postpones the launch of the InSight lander mission to Mars due to a malfunction in the scientific equipment

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Imaging of the Akatsuki probe in the vicinity of Venus. Source: JAXA

The Japanese probe "Akatsuki" entered orbit around Venus, five years after a failed attempt

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The satellite is loaded 5. Image: Wikipedia

Space Communications lost contact with the Amos 5 satellite

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The Falcon-9 explosion on 28/6/2015. Photo: NASA

In space launches, failure is always an option

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Launch of the "flying saucer", 8/6/15 - a system to slow down the landing of large spacecraft on Mars. Screenshot from NASA TV

A second test for the flying saucer - again a malfunction in the parachute caused a crash landing in the Pacific Ocean

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The Beagle 2 spacecraft as it would have looked if it had landed safely on Mars. Figure: European Space Agency

The lost spacecraft Beagle-2 was found on the Martian soil, apparently unharmed but also without communication capability

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The International Space Station as seen on April 17, 2010 from the space shuttle Discovery as it left the station

Fear of an ammonia leak in the space station necessitated the evacuation of the American wing. Peace to the team

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Landing Manager Stefan Olmec and ESA Operations Director Paolo Perry at a press conference summarizing the events of the PHILAE landing on Comet 67P at the ESA Control Center in Darmstadt. 12.11.14. Photo: Avi Belizovskan

Assessment as to the cause of the disruptions: Philae landed, then took off again and landed at a different point

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One of the two pieces of the Spaceship 2 spacecraft tail on the ground in the Mojave desert, minutes after the spacecraft disintegrated during a test flight. Photo: Mujabi's army and emergency response team

Updates from the crash site of the spaceship-2 tourist spacecraft

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Debris of the SpaceShip 2 spacecraft that crashed during a test flight in the Mojave Desert, October 31, 2014. From Twitter

Second space accident in a week, one dead and one injured in the crashes of Virgin's Spaceship-2 spacecraft planned to fly space tourists

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Menachem Kidron (Photo: Lehi Avidan)

"Rocket engines are extremely sensitive to malfunctions, so the production process must be planned and all production stages must be thoroughly checked"

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The gecko experiment on the Photon M4 satellite during preparations for launch. From the website of the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Russia, IMBP

Russia has lost control of an experimental satellite with geckos on it

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Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) - a flying saucer-like device designed to simulate the landing of large spacecraft on Mars.

Experimental failure of the spacecraft landing system * The flying saucer crashed into the sea

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An artist's illustration of the Kepler space telescope designed to locate planets outside the solar system. Image: NASA

The next incarnation of the Kepler space telescope / Clara Moskowitz

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Astronaut Rick Mastracchio works outside the International Space Station during the first of a series of spacewalks to replace a broken ammonia pump module. Photo: NASA TV

Watch: The astronauts removed the malfunctioning ammonia pump on the International Space Station

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Crew 35 members Chris Cassidy (left) and Tom Meshburn on a May 11, 2013 spacewalk to scan and replace the suction control box on the space station. Photo: NASA.

A serious malfunction at the space station - one of the cooling systems stopped working * Hello to the crew members

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A satellite burns up in the atmosphere. Illustration: shutterstock

The European GOCE satellite has crashed, not yet known exactly where but most likely in the ocean

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The satellite is loaded 5. Image: Wikipedia

A serious malfunction of the Amos 5 satellite could shorten its operational life

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Deep Imcapt. Photo: NASA/JPL

Lost contact with the Deep Impact spacecraft

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An artist's illustration of the Kepler space telescope designed to locate planets outside the solar system. Image: NASA

Efforts to repair the Kepler telescope have failed

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Mars exploration in Russia 1974-1962: successes and failures

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A collection of planets discovered by the Kepler space telescope. Image: NASA

The Kepler space telescope, which discovered planets outside the solar system - broke down

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The International Space Station. Photo: NASA

The astronauts discovered a coolant leak in the space station

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This is a self-image of the Mars rover Curiosity made up of 66 images taken by the MAHLI arm node during Curiosity's 177th Mars mission on February 3, 2013. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Curiosity exited safe mode after two days

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Simulation of the orbits of the Russian satellite and the Chinese space fragment as done by AGI, January 2013

A piece of space debris from the satellite that the Chinese blew up in 2007 damaged a Russian satellite

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Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel. Photo: Kobi Kantor for People and Computers

The connection between cyber threats and damage to space is very direct

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Midad Farinta, CEO of the Specialist company

The satellites must be protected with active shielding against space fragments, including the ability to perform maneuvers

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Imaging of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft. Illustration: Roscosmos

Report: Phobos Geront spacecraft crashed in the Pacific Ocean

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The Fernhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Technologies Buchtenberg, Germany was able to image the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft with the help of the TIRA space observation radar. You can clearly see the deployed solar collectors (in the middle) and the fuel tank (at the bottom of the picture)

UPDATE Phobos-Grunt will crash tonight near the Falkland Islands. It will pass over Israel at 17:22

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