When SpaceX first launched the Starship, it blew up soon after liftoff. Since then, the world’s most powerful rocket has flown seven more times, with each test flight showing huge improvements in some areas of the vehicle’s design, but issues in others. One of the major achievements so far has involved the launch tower catching […]

SpaceX has so far completed eight launches of its mighty Starship rocket — the most powerful ever to fly — with two of them taking place this year. Now the Elon Musk-led spaceflight company has permission to dramatically increase the number of annual Starship launches from its Starbase facility in Texas from five to 25. […]

SpaceX has just test fired a Super Heavy booster ahead of the Starship’s ninth flight test. The ground-based firing of the world’s most powerful rocket took place at SpaceX’s Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday. Notably, the upcoming flight test will involve the first-ever reuse of a Super Heavy booster, with this particular […]