SpaceX on Thursday afternoon launched its eighth suborbital flight test of its fully integrated Starship rocket, after a failed January test, at Starbase in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.

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 ...

Before the explosion, SpaceX completed its third-ever catch of its Super Heavy booster, equipped with 33 Raptor engines, which returned to the Texas launchpad where the so-called “chopsticks ...

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 ...

For the seventh test flight in January of this year, SpaceX lost all communications with Starship's upper stage after it was able to catch the ship's massive rocket booster in the launch pad’s ...

The last Starship launch resulted in the successful detachment and catch of the booster, but the main rocket itself exploded. SpaceX Monday’s test was supposed to see the rocket cut across the ...

The rocket was making its eighth suborbital launch attempt, and SpaceX was able to perform the third-ever catch of the booster back at the tower. The test flight came just under two months since ...

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 ...