For the second flight test, SpaceX engineers designed a more robust and secure launchpad able to handle the incredible force generated by the Raptor engines as the Starship lifted off. Once ...

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 ...

Roughly two minutes after the engine burn began, “a flash was observed in the aft section of the vehicle near one of the Raptor vacuum engines,” SpaceX explained. “This aft section ...

It has the most engines ever in a rocket booster: The Super Heavy booster is powered by 33 of SpaceX’s Raptor engines. As those engines lift Starship off the launchpad, they will generate 16 ...

The rocket was seen spinning before SpaceX lost contact with it. "Prior to the end of the ascent burn, an energetic event in the aft portion of Starship resulted in the loss of several Raptor ...

The more than 400-foot Starship, powered by a super heavy booster with 33 Raptor engines, lifted off successfully at 6:30 p.m. ET from SpaceX's launchpad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville ...