The ship had successfully separated from the booster and had started its own rocket engines to ascend to orbit before it appeared some of those engines gave out. The company then saw its link to ...

Before the ship loss, the company successfully demonstrated how its massive mechanical arms dubbed “chopsticks” caught the rocket booster at the launch pad for the second time ever.

“Whoa. What is that?” “I think that’s rocket.” “Three, two, one.” “We, we did lose all communications with the ship.” “Wow.” “This, this, this is not right. Something happene ...

which licenses commercial rocket launches. While SpaceX said initial data indicates a fire developed in the aft section of the ship, Musk said on X that next month's eighth Starship flight is ...

SpaceX will be required to investigate why its uncrewed Starship rocket broke apart Thursday ... Communications were lost with the ship about 8½ minutes into the flight, Space X said.

Welcome to Edition 7.27 of the Rocket Report! Thursday was an eventful ... the first stage did not successfully return to a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. But no one who really understands ...

The rocket’s intended path was a suborbital trajectory around Earth with a splash landing in the Indian Ocean. "Initial data indicates a fire developed in the aft section of the ship ...