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 ...

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 ...