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.

SpaceX's latest uncrewed Starship launch at first went off without a boom May 27 but eventually broke up almost an hour after it took off. After two test flights ended in dramatic explosions ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is asking SpaceX for an investigation into this week’s Starship test flight that ended up spinning out of control and breaking apart. The FAA said the ...

After spectacular back-to-back upper stage failures in January and March, SpaceX launched another Super Heavy-Starship rocket Tuesday on the program's ninth test flight, but ran into fresh ...

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 9 ended in failure — and it is not the company’s only one. Since its first launch in April 2023, SpaceX has seen a mix of failed and successful launches.

Elon Musk said SpaceX will test launch a Starship rocket every few weeks. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images The test featured the first reuse of SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster, the powerful ...

"Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly," SpaceX said. Elon Musk and SpaceX are getting a little closer to sending humans to Mars, but they still have plenty of work to do.

SpaceX lost contact with Starship while conducting its ninth uncrewed test flight of the launch system, the most powerful ever constructed. The spacecraft likely broke apart over the Indian Ocean ...

SpaceX's ninth test flight of its Starship spacecraft, launched on May 27 from the company's Starbase facility in Texas, ended in failure shortly after liftoff. The mission aimed to deploy eight ...