The sixth test flight of Starship - the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly - will launch no earlier than 5 p.m. EST ...

SpaceX has announced the next test flight for its Starship rocket, and it's sooner than you probably expected. The sixth ...

SpaceX has ablative heat shield underneath the 18,000+ heat shield tiles. SpaceX Starship is going through peak heating and looks good and undamaged for the orbital re-entry and return. Now about ten ...

And that’s what SpaceX plans to do, albeit with some notable additions ... new secondary thermal protection materials and ...

SpaceX redesigned Starship’s heat shield for this test after Starship lost fragments of its shielding during reentry in June. The company used new heat shielding tiles and added an extra backup ...

SpaceX has scheduled its next Starship test flight for as soon as Nov. 18, making incremental changes since the previous flight in October.

Following the recent success of Starship’s fifth test flight, SpaceX has announced plans to launch its upcoming Starship test ...

In one of the most dramatic, high-risk space flights to date, SpaceX launched a gargantuan ... protected by improved heat-shield tiles and beefed-up steering fins that worked as needed while ...

The five previous flights of Starship, dating back to April 2023, have all launched near dawn from South Texas. For the ...

SpaceX successfully launched the latest test ... Musk added, was the loss of heat shield tiles — or thousands of small, black hexagons affixed to the spacecraft’s exterior that are meant ...

SpaceX launched Starship ... One problem was the loss of heat shield tiles — thousands of small, black hexagons affixed to the spacecraft’s exterior that are meant to shield the vehicle ...

After a historic test flight of Starship last month, SpaceX on Thursday announced the sixth, aiming to launch on November 18.