BOCA CHICA BEACH, Texas — SpaceX launched Starship for its ninth test flight on Tuesday night, which also marked for the first time that a Super Heavy booster was reused for a second time.

on par with the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy in reliability. The other problem Musk faces is political. He has spent the past year delving into politics, first by supporting Donald Trump’s campaign ...

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch has sent shockwaves through the aerospace world by proving that massive rockets can be engineered with mind-blowing cost efficiency, leaving NASA scientists stunned ...

The FAA determined that the loss of the Super Heavy booster is covered by one of the approved test induced damage exceptions requested by SpaceX for certain flight events and system components ...

The rocket, made up of the Super Heavy Booster 14 (the first stage) and the winged S35 “Ship” (the upper stage), took off from their south Texas coastal base at 6:36 p.m. local time on Tuesday.

Here’s the top takeaways from Flight 9. Neither Starship nor the Super Heavy booster that launched it into space survived the ninth test flight. Super Heavy exploded over the Gulf of Mexico ...

After spectacular back-to-back upper stage failures in January and March, SpaceX launched another Super Heavy-Starship rocket ... Starship separated from its booster about two and a half minutes ...

Starship’s takeoff was successful in this second test, but the separation from the Super Heavy booster ended in an explosion. Despite this premature ending, SpaceX classified the separation ...

SpaceX's Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket exploded during a test flight on Tuesday, the third consecutive setback for Elon Musk's company. Tuesday's un-crewed mission was the ninth test flight.

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While the mission concluded with both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper ... At the core of SpaceX’s current revenue model is its Falcon series of rockets, particularly the Falcon ...