SpaceX's latest flight test of its colossal Starship vehicle turned out to be ... by definition is unpredictable," the commercial space transportation company said in a mission update on its ...

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The US has grounded SpaceX's giant Starship rocket while an investigation is carried out into why one exploded during its latest test flight. The rocket's upper stage dramatically broke up and ...

Blue Origin and SpaceX both launched rockets on 16 January, but while Jeff Bezos's company saw a launch success with New Glenn, Elon Musk's Starship exploded. What does this mean for the future of the ...

The environmental impact of SpaceX and other space explorers While SpaceX’s Starship rocket was made up of stainless steel rather than aluminum, many satellites and other rockets are made out of ...

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The launch window closes at 5 p.m. The high-profile flight test is to include the first demonstration of Starship’s ability to deploy satellites to space. It’s also planning to attempt the ...

SpaceX caught the Starship rocket’s Super Heavy booster for a second time, after it launched the upper stage into space on Thursday during a seventh test flight of the system. Soon after the ...

SpaceX performed the seventh test flight of the Starship rocket on Thursday ... slowed and diverted aircraft around the area where space vehicle debris was falling,” adding that “normal ...

The rapid unscheduled disassembly (aka explosion) of SpaceX's Starship megarocket that rained scorching fragments of metal across the Caribbean in mid-January may have released significant amounts ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at the pad. Elon Musk’s company said Starship ...