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 has ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch its eighth test flight of the massive Starship rocket on Monday, which will include another attempt to catch its Super Heavy booster at the launchpad with mechanical ...

The company only stacked the Starship spacecraft atop the Super Heavy booster this morning. Such last-minute assembly is not common in the world of rocketry. Huot said the company opted to wait to ...

SpaceX postponed its eighth test of the hulking Starship rocket on Monday, following a flight controller hold placed due to a Super Heavy booster issue that wasn’t resolved in time for launch.

SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster, which houses the engines and propellant tanks that haul the Starship vehicle off the launchpad just made it into the arms of Mechazilla, SpaceX’s launch tower.

In that test, Starship’s mammoth booster, or the bottom of the rocket, successfully returned to the launchpad, but the upper-stage spacecraft disintegrated over the Caribbean, with some debris ...

Update: SpaceX is now targeting a Starship launch at 6:30 p.m. EST Thursday ... The decision to push the latest liftoff was due to issues with the booster, according to SpaceX.

Monday’s countdown stopped 40 seconds ahead of a 5:45 p.m. launch as the commercial space company was battling problems first with its Super Heavy booster and then the upper-stage Starship.