[01:33.96]showed the booster rocket being captured [01:37.16]by the structure exactly as planned. [01:40.80]A short time later, Starship's second stage [01:45.56]safely spashed down in the Indian Ocean. [01:49.84]The...
Elon Musk’s giant rocket suffered a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” during the latest test launch Jan 17, 2025 00:40 Musk accuses ‘deep state traitors’ of targeting him The SpaceX CEO faces multiple probes over alleged security clearance vetting protocol breaches, the NYT has reported ...
SpaceX mega rocket launches on third test flight 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...
SpaceX test Raptor rocket engineThe rocket engine was fired at a water-cooled steel plate, which is designed to protect the launch pad during liftoff. Commenting on the test, SpaceX founder Elon Musk called it "one hell of a plasma beam"....
SpaceX launched NASA's planetary defense mission, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday. The mission is an attempt to understand how to deflect an asteroid off a collision course toward Ea...
SpaceX Makes Progress with Rocket TestRENEE MONTAGNE
The previous three test flights ended in explosions of the rocket and the spacecraft. Starship is the world's largest and most powerful rocket at nearly 400ft (121m) tall.
SpaceX completed a static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in preparation for a launch Dec. 9 with the space agency’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer science mission. The test-firing of the Falcon 9 rocket occurred at 12:18 p.m. EST (1718 GM...
SpaceX loses spacecraft after catching rocket booster during test flight While the Starship is lost, the mission's first-stage booster successfully returned to the launch tower, where it was caught by the tower's robotic arms. January 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM ...
SpaceX's next-generation Starship megarocket launched on a stunning third-ever test flight today (March 14), somewhat astonishingly completing many of its mission objectives.