Dramatic footage shows the Long March 7A rocket bursting into flames just 85 seconds after blasting off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan on Monday.

Rare failure ends a run of successful missions for the new-generation rocket, which was carrying the ChinaSat-4B communications satellite China has suffered a rare failure of one of its ...

THIS is the shocking moment a Chinese rocket explodes after take-off as Xi Jinping races to keep pace with SpaceX and Elon Musk. Alarming footage shows the Long March 7A rocket erupting into ...

Videos surfaced on social media showed the rocket conducting a successful lift-off, which was followed by explosion roughly 85 seconds after the take-off.

A Chinese rocket set to launch a satellite into orbit blew-up seconds after liftoff Monday, marking the relatively rare failure for a rocket considered the workhorse of Beijing’s space program.

China said a Long March 7A rocket carrying the ChinaSat-4B satellite failed after an in-flight anomaly following liftoff from the Wenchang space launch site in the southern island province of Hainan ...