SpaceX leadership repeatedly stressed the experimental nature of the launch and said any result that involved Starship getting off the launchpad would be a success. The rocket flew for nearly 4 minutes andsuccessfully separatedfrom the Super Heavy booster, a key in-flight milestone, before suffering...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth Starship. Monday's launch attempt was called off because of a stuck valve in the first-stage booster and there could be another try this week.
You can watch the launch live on SpaceX's X page or on one of several third-party YouTube livestreams. We have embedded a livestream from LabPadre and Spaceflight Now here. The rocket's 33 Raptors will fire more than two-and-a-half minutes to propel Starship into the r...
Starship, the world's biggest rocket built byElon Musk'sSpaceX, is finally set to launch today. Following a scrubbed test on Monday, the colossalSpace Launch Systemis ready for its first test flight, taking place from the company's Starbase near Boca Chica Village in South Texas. ...
SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket – collectively referred to as Starship – represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship is the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed,...
SpaceX shortly announced that it could not find a signal from the second stage, which it declared “lost”. The company believes the rocket’s self-destruction mechanism was set off after it lost the signal.Starship launch live broadcast https://t.co/hRmOPXJ29...
CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX will livestream Starship’s harrowing high-altitude launch and landing debut “warts and all,” offering a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a high-risk aerospace endeavor. As of November 1st, Starship prototype serial number 8 (SN8) has just kicked off what ...
For viewers at home, SpaceX will start a live broadcast of the countdown about a half-hour before liftoff. The launch window is 5 to 5:30 p.m. ET. The livestream feed will be available onSpaceX's website, and updates will beposted on X, the social platform also owned by Musk. ...
“Turns out the vehicle had more capability than our calculations predicted, and that is why we test like we fly,” SpaceX engineer Kate Tice said on the livestream for the event. Developing Starship, a reusable launch system This uncrewed trial marked the fastest turnaround time yet in Spac...
The launchpad itself appeared to be in good shape. Before SpaceX’s last test flight in November, the company installed awater deluge systemdesigned to shoot more than 300,000 gallons of water up toward the Super Heavy booster to dampen the blow of the vehicle’s massive engines. ...