SpaceX launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship mega rocket on its seventh test flight Thursday, successfully "catching" the first stage booster back at its firing stand but losing its new-generation ...

Starship's previous six test flights occurred in April and November of 2023 and March, June, October and November of last ...

The Super Heavy booster successfully landed using the "chopsticks" mechanism before the unmanned rocket was apparently destroyed. SpaceX aims to utilize Starship for lunar missions with NASA and ...

Rocket debris from a SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy booster was spotted in the sky after a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" before part of the device successfully returned to its "chopsticks" for a ...

The Starship spacecraft, stacked atop the Super Heavy rocket booster, took flight at 5:37 p.m. ET (4:37 p.m. local time) Thursday. The rocket booster revved up the 33 engines at its base ...

A SpaceX Super Heavy-Starship rocket stands poised for launch on the program's seventh test flight at the company's Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and flight facility. / Credit: SpaceX The New ...

For Thursday's flight test, SpaceX debuted a new and upgraded model of its 400-foot Starship, composed of both a 165-foot spacecraft and a 232-foot Super Heavy rocket. After a short delay ...

The Super Heavy rocket booster, the vehicle’s bottommost portion known as the first stage, gives the initial thrust after takeoff. The booster will fire its 33 Raptor engines for about 2 ½ ...