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SpaceX, the commercial rocket company founded by Elon Musk, is about to launch Starship on its 10th flight since April 2023. What's happened before?
SpaceX plans to launch the 10th test flight of its Starship megarocket about three weeks from now, according to company founder and CEO Elon Musk.
SpaceX is ten full-scale test launches into developing its enormous, nearly 400-feet-tall Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. Over the last two and a half years, we've seen over half a ...
Space & Spaceflight FAA Allows SpaceX to Drop Starship Rocket Bits on Sacred Hawaiian Island The company's operations have already led to habitat loss in Texas, and now Hawaii may be at risk.
Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and the future of SpaceX. But it keeps blowing up, and no one knows if Elon Musk can fix it, Jeff Wise reports.
Since 2019, SpaceX’s Starship has gone through dozens of fiery tests in its quest to become a low-cost rocket for Mars and deep space missions.
Aerial views of SpaceX Starship 24 and Super Heavy booster 7 mated at SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. Credit: SpaceX | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: Intonation by Gavin ...
SpaceX conducted a static fire test of a single Starship 26 engine. The test demonstrated "flight-like startup for a Starship deorbit burn," according to SpaceX.
SpaceX rocket debris could land in delicate sites near Hawaii, locals fear The Starship rocket's flight path has some concerned about its possible landing spots.
Starship hasn't launched since May, when SpaceX lost contact with the vehicle. That incident marked a third mishap, after the two test flights before then ended with flames.
Weeks after Mexico’s president threatened to sue Elon Musk's SpaceX over pollution from its space junk, the company has been pulling Starship rocket debris out of the Gulf of Mexico. Since July ...
SpaceX is nine full-scale test launches into developing its Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. But will it ever work?