SpaceX launches Super Heavy-Starship rocket but test flight falls short
Seven months after a catastrophic failure, SpaceX launched its Super Heavy-Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, but once again ran into problems.
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Seven months after a catastrophic failure, SpaceX launched its Super Heavy-Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, but once again ran into problems.
The unpiloted Dragon cargo ship is loaded with 6,500 pounds of research equipment, supplies and fresh food.
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Amazon plans to launch more than 3,000 internet relay satellites, competing with SpaceX and others in a fast-growing marketplace.
Kairan Quazi will graduate from college this week at the age of 14 before joining SpaceX' to work on satellite tech.
NASA managers say SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship rocket and lunar lander testing may push Artemis crew landing to 2026.
The Starship rocket is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.
The gargantuan Starship rocket is critical for SpaceX's plans to send passengers and cargo to the moon, Mars and beyond.
SpaceX has cleared the final hurdle for launching its new giant Starship from Texas as early as next week on a first test flight.
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SpaceX is a big step closer to sending its giant Starship spacecraft into orbit, completing an engine-firing test at the launch pad on Thursday.
Twitter's new owner falls down a rung in wealth rankings for the first time since overtaking Jeff Bezos in 2021.
The retired 82-year-old financial analyst, who paid $20 million for a trip to the space station in 2001, is gearing up for a flight around the moon and back.
A NASA and SpaceX flight to the ISS includes the first Indigenous woman to go to space and a Russian cosmonaut.
38-year-old Anna Kikina is the only active-duty female in Russia's cosmonaut corps.
No one was on board, only 36 science experiments (half sponsored by NASA) and research payloads along with tens of thousands of postcards.
Billionaire CEO Jared Isaacman is buying three more flights with SpaceX, the first of which is scheduled for this year.
SpaceX's Elon Musk says the first orbital flight of his towering Starship — the world's most powerful rocket ever built — could come in another month or two.
Commander of the Crew 2 Mission, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is from Killeen. He will represent the U.S. along with NASA astronaut Megan McArthur.
SpaceX won with its bid for use of a spacecraft the company is already developing on its own in South Texas.
Elon Musk is showing his new home state of Texas some love.
The landing of a SpaceX Starship prototype rocket appeared to be textbook when it touched down in Texas on March 3, but then it exploded on the landing pad.
It was a SpaceX prototype rocket that exploded after crashing in Texas, now the Federal Aviation Administration is overseeing an investigation into the incident.
The entire flight — as dramatic and flashy as it gets, even by SpaceX standards — lasted just over six minutes and 40 minutes.
