The company is also celebrating the third-ever catch of its Super Heavy booster, equipped with 33 Raptor engines.
vehicle aloft from its Starbase site in South Texas at 6:30 p.m. EST (2330 GMT; 5:30 p.m. local Texas time). Seven minutes later, Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, returned to ...
SpaceX said it lost contact with its massive Starship rocket during its highly anticipated test launch on Thursday evening.
The SpaceX Starship explosion that occurred on Thursday night is the second this year. Here's what happens next.
The company notched another successful booster catch but lost contact with the Starship spacecraft at roughly the same point ...
Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just ...
As of Tuesday, the Super Heavy rocket booster had been rolled out to the launch pad amid preparations to ready the vehicle to get off the ground for the eighth time since April 2023. The launch window ...
That mission was a mixed bag; SpaceX caught Super Heavy with the "chopstick" arms of Starbase's launch tower about seven ... and ultimately triggered the vehicle's autonomous flight termination ...
The upper portion of SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded once again minutes into its Thursday flight test, creating a cascade of debris.
The next launch attempt for Starship, which has yet to reach orbit on any of its flights, is now targeted for 6:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, SpaceX said.
SpaceX made multiple changes in the wake of a January Starship failure, only to suffer a second straight vehicle breakup ...