SpaceX announced a one-day delay from a targeted launch on Mar. 5 in a post on X Wednesday morning. You can watch the Flight 8 launch live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the ...
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 ...
SpaceX's Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas and dealing another setback to Elon Musk's rocket program after a failure under ...
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 ...
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 the chopsticks on the launch tower, which was completed successfully. Starship's upper stage rocket is seen breaking ...
SpaceX has successfully launched the massive Starship rocket for the eighth time, and also landed the first-stage Super Heavy booster. But in a repeat of its last flight test in January ...
The company only stacked the Starship spacecraft atop the Super Heavy booster this morning. Such last-minute assembly is not common in the world of rocketry. Huot said the company opted to wait to ...
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 ...
The Starship — comprising the first-stage Super Heavy booster and the upper-stage Starship spacecraft — will eventually be used for crew and cargo missions to the moon and possibly even Mars.
Update: SpaceX is now targeting a Starship launch at 6:30 p.m. EST Thursday ... The decision to push the latest liftoff was due to issues with the booster, according to SpaceX.