Musk wrote. The test wasn't a total botch, though. SpaceX managed to successfully complete the rocket booster return and catch at the launch pad for the second time ever. The booster was caught with ...

A minute before the loss, SpaceX used the launch tower’s giant mechanical arms to catch the returning booster, a feat achieved only once before. The descending booster hovered over the launch pad ...

The seventh test flight of SpaceX's Starship has successfully taken off from Boca Chica, Texas. Newsweek's live blog is ...

SpaceX used giant mechanical arms to catch its Starship rocket back at the pad minutes after liftoff Thursday. SPACEX/AFP via Getty Images The “chopsticks” first and only other successful ...

SpaceX sent up its first test flight of the year for its Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Texas catching the booster for just the second time back at the launch site, but suffering a loss of ...

The company pulled off the first booster “catch” — which involves articulated arms on the launch tower snatching the rocket stage out of the air as it uses rockets to slow its descent — in ...

SpaceX is preparing for Starship's seventh flight test Monday afternoon from Starbase in Boca Chica near Brownsville. See the full launch schedule.

But it will climb so high in the atmosphere that its exhaust will catch sunlight long after the sun has set at ground level. That’s why we’ll be able to see the rocket’s “jellyfish cloud.” ...

It could be a banner day for spaceflight today (Feb. 4), with five rocket launches planned in 24 hours, four of them from the ...

The Starship rocket system is the largest ever built ... The booster also successfully re-entered the atmosphere. But plans to catch it — a feat that SpaceX accomplished during the fifth ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at the pad. Elon Musk’s company said the ...