"This booster previously launched and returned on Flight 7, and 29 of its 33 Raptor engines are flight proven." ...

SpaceX posted photos on X today (Feb. 25) showing Super Heavy, the giant first stage of its Starship megarocket, being lifted onto the orbital launch mount at its Starbase site in South Texas.

In preparation for its eighth Starship ... vehicle's launch simulation run. "Full duration static fire test of Super Heavy," SpaceX posted to X on Sunday, Feb. 9, with a set of photos from the ...

Starbase, a rocket facility owned by SpaceX, is located just outside of Brownsville, Texas. The construction of this facility began in 2014. Originally known as Boca Chica, Texas, Starbase is an area ...

They expressed particular concerns about future images from highly sensitive ... whose larger design is intended to launch on SpaceX's yet-operational Starship rocket. In the interim, the V2 ...

Despite this, the firm's approach of "fail fast, learn fast" has helped it become the world's dominant launch services provider. On March 6, a SpaceX Starship rocket exploded after liftoff ...

open image in gallery Billionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s timeline ... roughly 150 times the distance to the moon. Starship cannot launch directly from the Earth and reach Mars in one go.

Aubrey Gemignani/NASA/Getty Image Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, announced plans to send Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus aboard the Starship rocket to Mars, targeting a launch late next year.

The most visible sign of SpaceX making headway with Starship's first stage—called Super Heavy—came at 9:40 am local time (10:40 am EDT; 14:40 UTC) Thursday at the company's Starbase launch ...

SpaceX has just test fired a Super Heavy booster ahead of the Starship’s ninth flight test ... method involving giant mechanical arms on the launch tower that secure the Super Heavy above ...

Elon Musk reinforced his intention on Friday for SpaceX to launch an uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026. The ambitious goal is one Musk, the founder and CEO of the commercial spaceflight ...

None of Starship's eight test missions to date have reused a Super Heavy or a Ship upper stage, so Flight 9 will be groundbreaking. SpaceX has not yet announced a target launch date for the mission.