But after the first-stage booster successfully landed atop a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the landing legs — and the booster tipped ...

The eighth test flight of SpaceX's giant rocket was also ultimately unsuccessful. Starship suffers loss of control in space, but at least the booster came back. The eighth test flight of a SpaceX ...

SpaceX starship rocket explodes during test flight Just minutes after a seemingly successful launch from Texas on Thursday night, Starship Flight Test 8 began to spin out of control when mission ...

The re-ignition of the Vinci engine also worked. The rocket lifted off at 13:24 local time (17:24 CET) from the Kourou launch site in the French overseas department of French Guiana, according to ...

The landing legs stuck up in the air and the melted body of the rocket hung off the side of the drone ship — making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers. The only ...