SpaceX has made an incredible catch of its Super Heavy Booster during the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket, but has lost the vehicle. Launched at 5:37 p.m. ET today, Thursday January 16, ...

As the Super Heavy rocket booster — the bottommost section, or first stage, of the Starship system — burned through most of its fuel, SpaceX guided the Super Heavy back to a pinpoint landing ...

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches ... But the first-stage booster was destroyed, missing its targeted landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic.

SpaceX launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship mega rocket on its seventh test flight Thursday, successfully "catching" the first stage booster back ... one unpiloted lunar landing test flight ...

SpaceX plans to once again attempt to return the rocket booster and catch it at the launch pad, which would cause sonic booms in the area around the landing zone. The maneuver, which has been ...

Lost spacecraft: SpaceX ... landing after launch so that the vehicles can be refurbished and flown again — driving down the cost of each rocket launch. But while SpaceX has mastered the rocket ...

As with the previous six flights, SpaceX will launch the 120-meter-tall Starship — which consists of the first-stage Super Heavy booster and ... is also developing a landing system for the ...

In this screen grab taken from the SpaceX broadcast the Starship's Super Heavy Booster is being grabbed as it returns to the launch pad at Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on Jan. 16, 2025.

The rocket's reusable first stage booster was due to land on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean after separating from its second stage, but failed to make that landing ... will rival SpaceX's Starlink ...

SpaceX added that the rocket used Thursday is a new version of the Starship. While the Starship is lost, the super heavy first-stage booster successfully executed a controlled descent back to the ...