The company is also celebrating the third-ever catch of its Super Heavy booster, equipped with 33 Raptor engines.

After a failed mission in January, SpaceX on Thursday launched its ... One of the goals of the flight was to catch the Super Heavy booster using the chopsticks on the launch tower, which was ...

Then, the booster set itself up for a successful landing within the “chopstick” arms of “Mechazilla,” or SpaceX’s launch tower, near Brownsville, Texas. The feat means that SpaceX has ...

It's the third successful booster catch for SpaceX. Announcers on the broadcast said at about 9 minutes after launch that engineers lost attitude control and contact with the ship itself ...

The test flight will be the first since January 16, when SpaceX managed to “catch” the returning first-stage Super Heavy booster using a pair of giant mechanical arms attached to the launch tower.

Lifting off a little after 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the 403-foot rocket was making its eighth suborbital launch attempt, and SpaceX was able to perform the third-ever catch of the booster back at the ...

Seven minutes later, Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, returned to Starbase for a dramatic catch by the launch tower's "chopstick" arms. It was the third time that SpaceX ...

The rocket was making its eighth suborbital launch attempt, and SpaceX was able to perform the third-ever catch of the booster back at the tower. The test flight came just under two months since ...