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.

"The mishap investigation is focused only on the loss of the Starship vehicle ... Heavy toward a "hard splashdown" in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday. This didn't quite work out, however.

The FAA will require SpaceX to determine the cause of a mishap that occurred on Starship’s ninth test ... exploded as it headed for a planned splashdown. That prompted the FAA to activate ...

The recent Starship Flight 9 mission came and ended, but despite the many new things tried on this test, the outcome still turned out to be the same as previous missions. This is the third ...

Another launch, another failure? With the ninth flight of SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket ending in the vehicle’s loss, questions are being asked about whether Elon Musk’s company can ever ...

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, United States – SpaceX’s prototype Starship exploded over the Indian ... wearing an “Occupy Mars” T-shirt. Australian Piers Dawson, 50, said he is “obsessed ...

SOUTH PADRE SLAND, United States – SpaceX’s prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday ... wearing an “Occupy Mars” T-shirt. Australian Piers Dawson, 50, told AFP he’s “obsessed” ...

Neither Starship nor the Super Heavy booster that ... Ultimately, the vessel made an uncontrolled splashdown into the Indian Ocean. Ahead of Tuesday’s launch, an equally well-anticipated speech ...

SpaceX’s prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean ... wearing an “Occupy Mars” T-shirt. Australian Piers Dawson, 50, told AFP he’s “obsessed” with the rocket and built his ...

SpaceX's prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday ... while a live feed showed Musk sitting at ground control in Starbase, wearing an "Occupy Mars" T-shirt. Australian Piers Dawson ...

But an apparent propellant leak put the spacecraft into a slow spin that ruled out the restart and a controlled reentry and splashdown. The Starship has to enter at the right angle and in a ...

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. While not ...