SpaceX's Starship prototype was lost during its seventh test flight after experiencing engine issues. The Super Heavy booster successfully landed using the "chopsticks" mechanism before the ...

Telemetry from the Starship froze eight minutes and 27 seconds after launch following unexpected engine shutdowns or failures. SpaceX later confirmed the ship's destruction in a posting on X ...

Starship engines in chilldown ... SpaceX's Starship vehicle has begun its reentry into Earth's atmosphere, with a red glow of super hot plasma visible in live views from the spacecraft delivered ...

Credit: SpaceX While the booster returned, Starship continued to ascend. However, onscreen telemetry showed one of the six Raptor engines on Starship shut down seven minutes and 40 seconds after ...

The Super Heavy booster in this test was also the first one to reuse a Raptor engine from a previous flight test. At 403 feet tall, Starship is the biggest launch vehicle ever. It’s made up of ...

The booster will fire its 33 Raptor engines for about 2 ½ minutes to propel the attached uncrewed Starship vehicle away from the launchpad toward space. For the first time, one of those 33 Raptor ...