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SpaceX is gearing up for the ninth flight test of its mighty Starship rocket, and it's going to try something new.
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 27 of the company's Starlink internet satellites lifted off at midnight (0400 GMT) on Monday ...
SpaceX engineers have applied what they’ve learned to the next-generation Starship rocket, whose first-stage booster, the 71-meter-tall Super Heavy, descends into the embrace of the launch tower ...
SpaceX launched the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost communication with the uncrewed upper stage of the rocket that continues on into space. "We can confirm that we ...
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 ...
On Thursday, two high-profile rocket launches ended up with very different outcomes. For SpaceX, its South Texas launch of a Starship rocket as part of its ongoing mission to Mars project ended ...
Elon Musk's rocket maker SpaceX says it is the company that's going to take us to Mars one day, and its Starship craft is meant to be the spaceship that'll take us there. Before then, it's going ...
A perfect March Madness bracket could win you a trip to Mars in the years ahead aboard SpaceX's Starship rocket. And in case you're wondering, yes, that's the same spacecraft that has made ...
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 generate 16 million ...
Elon Musk's SpaceX is now aiming for Thursday to conduct the next test flight of its massive Starship rocket, following a last-minute cancellation on Monday. The scheduled launch of SpaceX’s ...
SpaceX is planning to launch Starship Friday afternoon from the company's Starbase in Boca Chica near Brownsville, Texas. As of Tuesday, the Super Heavy rocket booster had been rolled out to the ...