SpaceX launched the eighth test of its massive Starship rocket on Thursday, successfully taking-off and completing the much anticipated “catch” of the vaunted Super Heavy booster — but the company ...

After a failed mission in January, SpaceX on Thursday launched its ... One of the goals of the flight was to catch the Super Heavy booster using the chopsticks on the launch tower, which was ...

Then, the booster set itself up for a successful landing within the “chopstick” arms of “Mechazilla,” or SpaceX’s launch tower, near Brownsville, Texas. The feat means that SpaceX has ...

It's the third successful booster catch for SpaceX. Announcers on the broadcast said at about 9 minutes after launch that engineers lost attitude control and contact with the ship itself ...

Lifting off a little after 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the 403-foot rocket was making its eighth suborbital launch attempt, and SpaceX was able to perform the third-ever catch of the booster back at the ...

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 ...