Giant rocket is central to Musk’s ambition to reach Mars Launch comes hours after Bezos’ Blue Origin reached orbit SpaceX ’s Starship rocket exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight, an ...

U.S. grounded SpaceX Starship test flights after explosion mishap. Photo of Starship test flight 2 launch. Credit: Osunpokeh CC BY-SA 4.0 The US has grounded SpaceX’s Starship rocket while an ...

The third Starship test flight last March saw the spacecraft reach its planned trajectory and fly halfway around the world ...

"The FAA has directed SpaceX to lead an investigation of the Starship Super Heavy Flight 7 mishap with FAA oversight," the ...

NASA released views of several angles of SpaceX Starship’s second test flight. The massive rocket launched from SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. Credit: NASA Music: The Alabaster Coast by Ha ...

Prior to this test flight, the Starship spacecraft could hold about 1,200 metric tons (2.6 million pounds) of oxidizer and fuel, the company previously said. In a big first, Starship will also ...

Each test flight improvement sets the company up ... (The company previously said Starship can hold about 2.6 million pounds of oxidizer and fuel.) Starship is also outfitted with a brand new ...

SpaceX launched the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket ... Blue Origin will be bigger than $2 trillion Amazon Before losing communication, Starship was set to reach space and then travel ...

Losing the Block 2 Starship on its debut flight was not the optimal outcome. But SpaceX still managed to make significant progress on Flight 7. In October, SpaceX made history by snaring the ...