The company performed a "static fire" on Wednesday (Sept. 18) at its Starbase site in South Texas, briefly igniting the six Raptor engines of Ship 31, the upper stage of the vehicle that will conduct ...

" SpaceX must meet all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements prior to FAA launch authorization," agency officials said in an emailed statement to Space.com on Wednesday (Sept. 11). "A ...

SpaceX launched its Starship megarocket, the most powerful rocket on Earth, on its second test flight this weekend, and while the vehicle may have met an explosive end, its flight absolutely ...

SpaceX attempted the Starship's first stacked launch toward ... It later came to light that its powerful Raptor engines had blasted a crater in the concrete launchpad. This reportedly caused ...

Launch pads, however, are often overlooked even by spaceflight afficionados. Still, without a well-designed and properly ...

SpaceX has voiced its distaste before with waiting on the Federal Aviation Administration to grant licenses for previous ...

SpaceX needs Starship's unprecedented power in order ... After launch, photos and footage showed a giant crater where the rocket lifted off. "Concrete shot out into the ocean, and risked hitting ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has signaled to SpaceX that it won't approve a launch license for the next test flight of the Starship rocket until at least late November, the company said in ...

Astronauts in a demo flight headed by billionaire-pilot Jared Isaacman are testing leading-edge technologies pivotal to ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX company has performed a key test on its huge new rocket system, Starship. Engineers conducted what's called a "static fire", simultaneously igniting 31 out of 33 of the engines ...

The SpaceX company has managed to land one of its Starship prototypes at the end of a high-altitude test flight. Serial Number 10 (SN10) touched down in Boca Chica, Texas - in contrast to its ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the first uncrewed Starships to Mars will launch in two years and if the landings go well, humans ...