As SpaceX builds a new launch pad at Boca Chica, it is also building another huge mechanical chopsticks tower that has a slight difference. As the week rolled ...

4:44 p.m. update: For just the second time, SpaceX has successfully landed the Starship’s Super Heavy booster at its launch tower. It was guided back to Earth, where it was caught by so-called ...

Bezos' New Glenn and Musk's Starship both are heading for launch, and both could lift off in close timing to each other. Here ...

Advertisement The Starship's upper stage successfully lit all six Raptor engines and performed its ascent burn to space. Also, a pair of mechanical arms on the launch tower, called "chopsticks" by ...

Starship S33 and Super Heavy booster B14 lifted ... An attempt to repeat Flight 5's Oct. 13 successful booster catch at the launch tower was successful, about seven minutes after liftoff.

The Starship's upper stage successfully lit all six Raptor engines and performed its ascent burn to space. Also, a pair of mechanical arms on the launch tower, called "chopsticks" by the company, ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight ... RAGING FIRES A minute before the loss, SpaceX used the launch tower's giant mechanical arms to catch the returning booster ...

made it back down to Starbase for a dramatic catch by its launch tower's "chopstick" arms. But some eight minutes into the flight, SpaceX lost contact with the Starship upper stage, known as Ship.

Meanwhile, the Starship spacecraft ... the vehicle is intended to land upright in the arms of the Mechazilla launch tower after flight so that it can be rapidly reused. During the broadcast ...

While Super Heavy is already safely back home in the arms of its launch tower, the Starship spacecraft — which is meant to lap Earth and splash down in the Indian Ocean — has stopped ...

While the Starship is lost, the super heavy first-stage booster successfully executed a controlled descent back to the launch tower, where it was caught by the launch tower's giant robotic arms.