SpaceX postponed its eighth test of the hulking Starship rocket on Monday, following a flight controller hold placed due to a Super Heavy booster issue that wasn’t resolved in time for launch.

One of the goals of the flight was to catch the Super Heavy booster using ... During the flight test, Starship was slated to deploy four Starlink simulators, similar in size to next-generation ...

BOCA CHICA BEACH, Texas — SpaceX confirmed a rapid unscheduled disassembly after the company lost control of its Starship during its eighth test on Thursday night, but it was able to catch its ...

STARSHIP SEPARATED FROM THE BOOSTER ROCKET JUST FINE, BUT ABOUT EIGHT MINUTES INTO THE FLIGHT, YOU CAN SEE SMOKE COMING FROM THE ENGINES AND EXPLOSIONS AS IT BEGINS TO SPIRAL OUT OF CONTROL.

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 ...

The Elon Musk-owned company delighted stargazers last October during its fifth test when it completed the first successful catch of the booster rockets, with Starship itself completing a ...

The flight profile once again called for the Super Heavy booster ... have simulated the size of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites and follow the same trajectory of the upper Starship stage so they ...

Starship suffers loss of control in space, but at least the booster came back. The eighth test flight of a SpaceX Starship was initially successful. The giant rocket had a picture-perfect launch ...

But like the seventh test flight, the eighth flight also ended with a loss of the Starship vehicle. While the company was successful in capturing a booster from the rocket as it returned to the ...