In preparation for its eighth Starship launch, SpaceX is finishing up preflight shakedowns for the megarocket's first stage, or Super Heavy booster, and second stage, also known simply as "Ship." ...

Activity at SpaceX’s Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas, suggests that the spaceflight company is moving rapidly toward the eighth test of its mighty Starship rocket, which comprises the first ...

SpaceX Starship had by far the longest static fire ever of about 1 minute. SpaceX upgraded the flame trench and other systems. This enables longer static fires. They can now test more conditions and ...

SpaceX is planning its next Starship test flight, weeks after the last one involved an explosion that rained rocket parts across the Caribbean and disrupted air traffic. The Elon Musk-led company ...

SpaceX’s Starship flew for the seventh time on January 16, 2024, nearly taking off but impacting a cloud of explosive debris. Meanwhile, on completion of space exploration debris is raining down from ...

A nuclear thermal rocket could potentially achieve double or triple the Delta-V of a SpaceX Starship with just the full orbital refueling. But to move large payloads of 100-200 tons, then the thrust ...

As exciting as SpaceX Starship launches can be, their explosive failures are arguably more dramatic. That’s proving to be the case in their aftermath, too. The advances made in space technology ...

But SpaceX's Starship rocket will be bigger, cheaper, and more reusable than either Falcon 9 or New Glenn. Don't worry about Elon Musk. SpaceX is going to do just fine. Once a company dabbling ...

The billionaire, overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the Trump regime, gifted PM Modi what appears to be a heatshield tile that flew on SpaceX's starship test flight 5 in ...

In December, SpaceX submitted a petition to turn the coastal Texas village, where the Starship factory and space port operate, into an incorporated city. Like the rocket complex, it would be named ...

I would not be surprised if we fly 400 Starship launches in the next four years," SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said at the Baron Investment Conference in New York in November.