Progress on the path to Flight 12 continues to be focused on testing at Massey’s test site at Starbase, with Ship 39 passing multiple cryoloading objectives. The testing follows Booster 19’s ...

Watch SpaceX doused a steel plate with water and then blast Raptor engine fire into it. The private spaceflight company's ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the Raptor engine of its Starship launch vehicle is not perfect and needs a few more changes. What Happened: “Still a few final touches to perfect Raptor,” ...

Discover how SpaceX's Starship V3, featuring powerful Raptor 3 engines, aims to revolutionise Mars missions. Scheduled for mid-March, Flight 12 marks a pivotal test for Elon Musk's vision of human ...

A vacuum Raptor engine was recently test-fired after being "chilled to mimic conditions after a long coast period in space," ...

After spectacular back-to-back upper stage failures in January and March, SpaceX launched another Super Heavy-Starship rocket Tuesday on the program's ninth test flight, but ran into fresh problems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SpaceX is getting closer to launching the world's largest rocket once again on a critical flight test later in May. Were the ...

On March 6, 2025, Starship’s eighth flight test successfully lifted off at 5:30 p.m. CT from Starbase in Texas. All 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster started up successfully and completed a ...

This first Version 3 Starship marks a milestone with its fully tiled heat shield, all four flaps, and tweaks for powerful Raptor 3 engines, heading to ...

WASHINGTON — The failure of SpaceX’s Starship on its most recent test flight had a different root cause than the previous failure, despite happening at about the same time. SpaceX released details May ...

It comes a week after the Elon Musk-led spaceflight company tested the 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster ahead of the seventh test flight involving the integrated booster and spacecraft, ...

SpaceX launched its mighty Starship rocket for the eighth time last week. The mission was a bit of mixed bag, with the team successfully catching the first-stage Super Heavy booster on its return to ...