NASA-backed private stations rise, India nears crewed flight, China eyes new milestones, and SpaceX pushes Starship’s limits.
The launch was set for Wednesday afternoon but has moved back to Thursday at 5 p.m. from SpaceX’s Starbase launch complex in Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX said the delay was due to weather.
In October 2024, Starship launched for a groundbreaking fifth test flight that saw the rocket’s Super Heavy 232-foot-tall (71 meters) booster being caught mid-air by the giant Mechazilla tower ...
SpaceX is ready to send up its first test flight of the year for its Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Texas, but delayed it one day to Thursday, when the company will once again go for a ...
After burning through most of its fuel, the Super Heavy booster will then detach from the Starship spacecraft, which will ignite its own engines and begin soaring through space. The gargantuan ...
The Super Heavy rocket booster will be outfitted with a Raptor engine from the booster that launched and returned on Starship’s fifth flight test in October — the first time flight-proven ...
Space watchers had been gearing up for an exciting evening tonight as SpaceX was set to launch its mighty Starship on its ... to catch the rocket’s Super Heavy Booster at the launch tower ...
Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. It consists of two stages, both of which are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable: a giant booster called Super Heavy and a 165 ...