Following two challenges, SpaceX may attempt to launch its large Starship next week.
SpaceX Plans Another Launch Attempt for Starship SpaceX announced on Friday its intention to launch its colossal spacecraft next week. The company stated on its website that the ninth flight test for the Starship will take place on Tuesday, May 27th, starting at 6:30 PM local time (2330 GMT) from a Texas launch site. Two […]
FAA Gives Go-Ahead for SpaceX’s Starship to Fly Again After March Delay
SpaceX Gets FAA Approval for Upcoming Test Flight Washington: The US Federal Aviation Administration has granted approval for SpaceX’s spacecraft to resume flights following an explosive testing incident that occurred in March. This clears the way for Elon Musk’s company to initiate its ninth test flight of the Mars rocket as early as next week. […]
Another SpaceX Starship Rocket Test Ends in Explosion
Another SpaceX Starship rocket test ended with an explosion on Thursday, with fiery debris falling in the Turkish and Caicos Islands. SpaceX lost contact within minutes of its test flight after launching a 403-foot rocket from a Texas base. It remains unknown whether the rocket exploded due to an error or whether it had a […]
SpaceX Starship 8 test postponed following unresolved booster issue
SpaceX postponed the eighth test of the giant spacecraft rocket on Monday, following a flight controller hold placed due to a very heavy booster issue that was not resolved in time for launch. The spacecraft was scheduled to take off from SpaceX's Starbase facility near Bocachikachica Beach in Texas, but the computer flagged the booster […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX prepares for 8th Starship launch, pending FAA approval
Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing to begin its eighth flight tests of the spacecraft from Bocachica, Texas. “Starship Flight 8 will fly on Friday,” SpaceX CEO Musk said in a X Sunday post. For the first time, future flights will have multiple payload deployments and multiple experiments on re-entry with the aim of returning the […]
WATCH LIVE: SpaceX launches Starship and will attempt to catch booster using launch pad's chopsticks
SpaceX will launch its sixth, suborbital flight test of its fully integrated Starship rocket in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. SpaceX plans … source
SpaceX’s starship grounds after test flight explosion
Video shows debris in the sky after SpaceX's Starship rocket experienced “unplanned rapid disintegration” during a flight test on January 16th. [Credit: Greg Munch /TMX] SpaceX launched its Starship rocket Thursday on its latest test flight, but the spacecraft was destroyed after a thrilling booster catchback on the pad. Elon Musk's company announced that the […]
SpaceX blames Starship rocket launch accident on fire
Elon Musk's SpaceX company suspects a fire may have been the cause of his 400-foot Starship exploding in space after launching from Texas, showering a trail of burning debris near the Caribbean Sea. I doubt it. The billionaire said a preliminary assessment of Thursday's failed test flight showed that an internal leak of liquid oxygen […]
SpaceX Starship Rocket Breaks Apart After Launch
The latest SpaceX Starship rocket underwent a rough test flight Thursday, disintegrating within nine minutes of liftoff. This was the Starship rocket's seventh test flight, which launched Thursday from the Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas, and lasted nine minutes before SpaceX lost contact. “We certainly lost the ship,” said Kate Tice, SpaceX's senior manager of […]
Starship upper stage lost on seventh test flight
Rocket fragments from SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy booster were found in the sky after an “unscheduled rapid disassembly” before parts of the device could successfully “chopstick” again. The vehicle was launched from SpaceX's Starbase Test Range in Boca Chica, Texas. The booster then separated approximately 2 minutes and 45 seconds after liftoff and returned to […]