Starship, the most powerful launch system ever built, is set to take off on its eighth test flight about six weeks after an explosive failure over populated islands.

The purchase of a drone barge that it will use for remote-controlled landings of its new Neutron rocket ship. The development of a new satellite designed for mass manufacture and easy packing inside.

The rocket's upper stage — known as Starship, or simply "Ship" — was supposed to deploy 10 dummy satellites into a suborbital trajectory and then splash down in the Indian Ocean about an hour ...

The company has made changes to the vehicle, part of which blew up over the Caribbean in January during the seventh test flight. An issue during the countdown halted Monday’s launch.

SpaceX aimed to launch the eighth test flight of Starship — the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built ... its Super Heavy booster and Ship upper stage — and called the launch off ...

Kelly, D-Ariz., a retired astronaut, had challenged Musk to climb into a rocket ship by the time the social media spat concluded on Friday afternoon. “Hey @ElonMusk, when you finally get the ...

But after the first-stage booster successfully landed atop a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the landing legs — and the booster tipped ...