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SpaceX rocket reaches orbit despite engine trouble

Summary

Elon Musk's SpaceX has launched a Starship rocket into orbit for the first time.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. Struck through: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

  • Brisbane Times SpaceX rocket reaches orbit despite engine trouble plain
  • TechCrunch SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time plain
  • The West Australian SpaceX's Starship reaches orbit despite engine issue plain
  • WAtoday Fiery Splashdown for SpaceX’s Starship as orbital flight cut short 1 change
  • ABC News SpaceX's Starship rocket reaches orbit for first time before fiery splashdown 1 change

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Axiom-3 Launch (KSC-20240118-PH-CMS01 0022) Cropped
Axiom-3 Launch (KSC-20240118-PH-CMS01 0022) Cropped Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by WAtoday, The Age, Brisbane Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet Niral ScoreAdjectivesSourcingSentimentHappiness
Brisbane Timesas they published this story 4.1 0 42 0 52.6
TechCrunch 14.7 16 7 0.1 53.3
ABC News 16 13 12 0 48.4

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20 Australian outlets reported this story. These are the ones we do not read; their headlines are matched to this one automatically, so an occasional match may be a different story.

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The same event elsewhere

8 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.