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 ...
The SpaceX Starship explosion that occurred on Thursday night is the second this year. Here's what happens next.
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 but lost contact with it after ...
The company notched another successful booster catch but lost contact with the Starship spacecraft at roughly the same point ...
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 goal of the seventh test flight was to test several upgrades SpaceX made to its heavy-lift rocket system. After a successful launch and completing a full duration burn, the Su ...
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's latest Starship to attempt to reach space exploded nine minutes after its launch this week, leaving a trail of ...
The test flight will be a repeat of what SpaceX hoped to achieve on the previous Starship launch in January, when the rocket ...