SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded again. Elon Musk’s Mars dreams remain grounded,...
SpaceX launched Starship and its Super Heavy booster toward space for the second time on Saturday. The rocket exploded again, but this time it came within seconds of completing launch. Elon Musk wants Starship to settle Mars. NASA wants it to put astronauts on the moon. But it has to fly first. Loading Something is…
Watch SpaceX launch Starship, the tallest and most powerful rocket ever...
SpaceX scrubbed its first-ever Starship orbital launch on Monday because of a pressurization issue. SpaceX plans to try to launch Starship again in a few days time, Elon Musk said. If Starship succeeds, it'll be the tallest, most powerful, and only fully reusable rocket to ever fly. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up!…
Five things to watch for when Starship takes off Saturday morning
SpaceX fans turned out at Starbase, the company's sprawling test facility in South Texas, on the eve of the second full-scale test flight of the Starship rocket. Stephen Clark/Ars Technica The nearly Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket reach toward the heavens Friday night, about 12 hours before their scheduled launch. Stephen Clark/Ars Technica SpaceX's…
Elon Musk says his SpaceX Starship may go to the moon...
A rendering of a SpaceX Starship on the moon Elon Musk/SpaceX It's been half a century since the space race between the Soviet Union and the US peaked with Apollo 11 and the first steps on the moon. But now the 21st century sequel is heating up courtesy of -- who else -- Elon Musk.…
Sorry doubters, Starship actually had a remarkably successful flight
Enlarge / Starship launched on Saturday with all 33 Raptor engines burning nominally.SpaceX SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas—Starship launches are clarifying events. Pretty quickly after liftoff you find out who understands the rocket business, and who are the casual observers bereft of a clue. Before I had even left the launch viewing area in South Padre…
SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA...
Enlarge / Starship launches on its second flight on November 18, 2023.SpaceX A little more than three months after the most recent launch of a Starship vehicle, which ended with both the booster and upper stage being lost in flight, the Federal Aviation Administration has closed its investigation of the mishap. "SpaceX identified, and the…
SpaceX next-gen Raptor rocket engine will fulfill Starship in Texas
SpaceX's Starship hopper should get an engine this week. SpaceX SpaceX might be hot off its triumphant NASA test flight of the Crew Dragon capsule to the ISS, but Elon Musk's company is still looking toward the moon and Mars. SpaceX's next-gen Raptor rocket engine just popped up in Texas, where the stainless-steel Starship prototype…
NASA selects SpaceX as its sole provider for a lunar lander
Enlarge / Rendering of SpaceX's Starship vehicle on the surface of the Moon.NASA In an extraordinary announcement on Friday, NASA said that it has selected SpaceX and its Starship vehicle to serve as the lunar lander for its Artemis Program. This is NASA's plan to return humans to the Moon later this decade. About a…
SpaceX wants to take over a Florida launch pad from rival...
Enlarge / SpaceX's fully-stacked Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster on a launch pad in South Texas. One of the largest launch pads at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will become vacant later this year after the final flight of United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy rocket. SpaceX is looking to make the sprawling facility…
Elon Musk shows off Starship prototype coming together in its oversize...
SpaceX assembled the shiny pieces of its planned Starship orbital prototype in late 2019. This wasn't a launch-ready version, but it showed what the spacecraft might look like when it's finally ready for testing. SpaceX For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. SpaceX delayed a launch due…
