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A SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after it was launched from Texas on Thursday, grounding flights and triggering warnings ...

This was Starship’s eighth flight test and follows a failed flight in January. The spacecraft is essential to Elon Musk’s ...

In that test, Starship’s mammoth booster ... best to take the rocket off the launchpad, inspect it “and try again in a day or two.” The Starship rocket system is the largest ever built.

Starship had been expected to launch again Monday. A previous launch ended in an explosion over the Caribbean, and sent ...

Seven weeks after an explosion sent pieces of a Starship launch vehicle falling into the Atlantic, SpaceX on Thursday again launched its largest and most powerful rocket before losing contact with ...