What’s more, Starship has a key advantage over other super-heavy-lift rockets in development, such as NASA’s much-delayed Space Launch System and Blue Origin’sNew Glenn rocket. The upper half of the rocket is designed to berefueled in Earth orbitby other Starships, so more of its lifti...
The rapid unscheduled disassembly of SpaceX's Starship mega rocket may have released significant amounts of harmful air-pollution into the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere.
Credit: SpaceX SpaceX's massive Starship rocket is designed to be fully reusable, further reducing the marginal cost of each flight and potentially resolving any concerns about production bottlenecks. But someone will still need to build Starships, and a lot of them. Elon Musk, Spac...
SpaceX's Super Heavy launch during the fifth test flight of the Starship. SpaceX SpaceX is making final preparations for the sixth test flight of its mighty Starship rocket featuring the most Super Heavy, the most powerful booster ever to fly....
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) weather satellite Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U (GOES-U) lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, June 25, 2024. ...
The shuttles are not the heavy lift vehicles like the Saturn V or the Delta rockets. The shuttle cannot go to high altitude orbits or escape the Earth's gravitational field to travel to the Moon or Mars. NASA is currently exploring new concepts for launch vehicles that are capable of going...
"Starship stacked for flight. This is another chance to put Starship in a true flight environment, maximizing how much we learn," SpaceX wrote on Nov. 16 on X, the site formerly called Twitter. Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories? Sign up ...
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket may not be the tallest rocket in use today, but at 230 feet (70 meters) it's pretty close. And while it's not the tallest of the bunch, the Falcon Heavy rocket is currently the most powerful booster of the 21st century. It can launch payloads of up ...
These will include a precise landing of Starship's Super Heavy booster in the Gulf of Mexico, which is necessary before SpaceX tries to land the booster back at its launch pad in Texas. Another objective will likely be the restart of a single Raptor engine on Starship in flight, whi...
SpaceX is getting ready to launch an enormous communications satellite using its most powerful operational rocket, the Falcon Heavy. The Falcon Heavy is a triple-booster rocket that packs more than 5 million pounds of thrust at launch, about three times more power than the single-booster Falcon...