SpaceX's Starship rocket broke up during its eighth uncrewed flight test on Thursday, sending debris shooting through the sky and temporarily affecting flights at Miami-area airports. It was ...
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 has ...
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 ...
SpaceX launched its huge Starship rocket on the program's eighth test flight Thursday, but a malfunction of some sort triggered multiple upper stage engine shutdowns and the vehicle failed to ...
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test ...
SpaceX unveiled its now-closed bracket challenge on social media site X with the simple message, "perfect destination for a ...
SpaceX also said it lost contact with Starship before the vehicle broke apart, but postflight analysis determined that built-in safety systems “did trigger autonomously.” Rocket safety systems ...
A month and a half after losing one spacecraft in an explosion, SpaceX has lost another. On March 6, a fiery explosion engulfed another unmanned Starship rocket test flight after its launch in Texas.
When SpaceX's Starship takes off next time from South Texas, it will have a few touch-ups from the last time the rocket launched in January and rained flaming debris down near the Turks and Caicos ...
Starship is not the only rocket flown by SpaceX that has had recent glitches. Some of the Falcon 9 rockets it launches from Florida and California every few days have also had problems.