SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
A test version of SpaceX's next-generation spacecraft, the Starship, successfully ignited its onboard engine for the first time today — though the vehicle didn't go for far. The ignition was a test known as a static fire, meant to try out the engine while the vehicle remaine...
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Today's test flight of the SpaceX Super Heavy-Starship rocket follows two launches last year that were only partially successful. Mar 14, 2024 4 station crew members safely return to Earth after 199-day mission Splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico closed out a 199-day mission spanning 3,18...
SpaceX has given us a few more dramatic looks at last week's Starship engine test. SpaceXfired up Booster 9 — the latest prototype of itsStarshipfirst stage, known as Super Heavy — on Friday (Aug. 25) at its Starbase facility in South Texas. All 33 of Booster 9's Raptor engines ...
A test last month successfully confirmed the engine can be started in the frigid conditions of space, even when the vehicle has spent an extended time in space, where temperatures will drop lower than a shorter low-Earth orbit mission. The Raptor vacuum engine was chilled to mimic conditi...
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The Starship upper-stage prototype Ship 28 conducts a six-engine static fire test on Dec. 20, 2023. (Image credit: SpaceX) Starship consists of two elements: a huge first-stage booster called Super Heavy and a 165-foot-tall (50 meters) upper-stage spacecraft known (somewhat redundantly) ...
On Saturday, a test version of SpaceX's new passenger spacecraft, the Crew Dragon, suffered from some kind of failure during an engine test at the company's landing site in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The accident resulted in large plumes of smoke rising from the company's facility on the ...
Space watchers had been gearing up for an exciting evening tonight as SpaceX was set to launch its mighty Starship on its seventh test flight to date. The hope was to launch the massive rocket and have it deploy a payload for the first time, as well as facing the daunting challenge of ...