Failed rocket found in New Mexico desert

UPHAM, New Mexico (AP) -- A rocket that was the first launched from a commercial spaceport in New Mexico -- and the first to crash -- has been found in the desert, company officials said Saturday.
The 20-foot (6-meter) SpaceLoft XL rocket was found nearly a week after it wobbled and went off course seconds after takeoff from Spaceport America in Upham on Monday afternoon.
The unmanned rocket crashed Monday in the rugged southern New Mexico desert after reaching about 40,000 feet (12,000 meters), well short of UP Aerospace's goal of sending the rocket into suborbital space, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) above Earth.
The company has not disclosed the exact site of the crash.
Eric Knight, the company's CEO, said radar data from the nearby White Sands Missile Range, the intended landing site, helped searchers find what was left of the rocket.
The cause of the crash remained a mystery, Knight said.
"Now that we have the rocket we can start doing our anomaly investigation," he said.