SpaceX rolled the Super Heavy vehicle called Booster 7 to the pad at Boca Chica, Texas, in June for tests. One such test July 11 ended with flames unexpectedly erupting from the base of the booster.

In preparation for its eighth Starship launch, SpaceX is finishing up preflight shakedowns for the megarocket's first stage, or Super Heavy booster, and second stage, also known simply as "Ship." As ...

Over the last 20 months, since May of 2024, SpaceX has been building the second pad at Starbase, Texas. As of the end of the ...

An earlier test of the same booster in July resulted in a giant fireball that sent the prototype back to the factory for repairs. Reading time 3 minutes Engineers at SpaceX have performed the first ...

SpaceX closed out 2023 with a fiery double test of its next Starship megarocket booster and spacecraft on Friday (Sept. 29), sharing some stunning videos of both vehicles in the process. The dual test ...

Super Heavy is breathing fire once again. SpaceX ignited the engines on its Super Heavy booster yesterday (July 15), ahead of Starship's next integrated flight test (IFT), expected in the next few ...

Elon Musk hoped to launch the fully stacked Starship rocket in July, but today's explosion could seriously complicate these plans. Reading time 3 minutes SpaceX is in the midst of preparing its ...

SpaceX engineers in Texas cranked up the world's most powerful rocket Thursday, firing 31 methane-burning Raptor engines in the company's gargantuan Super Heavy booster for a seven-second test run to ...

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A booster rocket carrying a hypersonic glide body failed to launch Thursday morning during a test by the Defense Department's hypersonic weapons program. "The test did not occur as planned due to a ...

A booster for the most powerful rocket in the world, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), successfully fired up Tuesday for its second qualification ground test at Orbital ATK’s test facilities in ...

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