SpaceX's Starship booster exploded during testing of the new Super Heavy in South Texas early Friday. The incident happened about 4 a.m. CST.
The loss of Booster 18 during gas pressure testing only cost SpaceX the shell of a booster. There were no raptor engines in it.
Watch this amazing footage of when SpaceX conducted a static fire test of the the Starship Super Heavy booster in preparation ...
SpaceX began testing the newest version of its Starship Super Heavy booster overnight Thursday (Nov. 20), but by Friday morning (Nov. 21), it was clear those tests did not go as planned.
SpaceX is already gearing up for the next flight of its Starship megarocket, just a week and a half after the most recent one left the ground. The company performed a long-duration "static fire" test ...
The rocket's first stage suffered an anomaly during pre-flight testing on Friday, but SpaceX insists it can still launch early next year.
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SpaceX has confirmed that its third-gen Super Heavy Booster, the first stage of the two-stage Starship system, suffered an explosive gas failure of sorts during testing on Thursday morning. In a post ...
SpaceX is preparing the launch of Starship Tuesday night, making this its ninth flight test following two recent explosions. The first explosion occurred during flight test seven, sending flaming ...
SpaceX has been successfully landing the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket for the last decade. Doing so allows SpaceX to ...
Fuel leaks on the upper-stage vehicle caused it to spin uncontrollably before its planned re-entry through Earth's atmosphere, ending with a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." SpaceX launched Starship ...
After three catastrophic in-flight failures in a row, SpaceX readied a huge Super Heavy-Starship rocket for launch Sunday evening from the Texas Gulf Coast to put a variety of upgrades to the test and ...