Elon Musk hailed Starship’s latest test flight as a “big improvement” despite his rocket appearing to explode into pieces during its return to Earth on Wednesday morning.

The company has also earned a huge share of America’s growing space industry, accounting for 138 out of 145 launches from the US in 2024 – a 95% share. The growth in US.-based launches is largely due to SpaceX’s success.

Incredible photos showed Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship perform its breakthrough “belly flop” maneuver as it splashed down in the Indian Ocean Sunday morning. And that wasn’t even the coolest ...

Update at 5:45 p.m.: SpaceX celebrated the launch of the eighth test flight Starship as the superheavy booster was successfully captured about 7 minutes after it launched from Starbase in South Texas.

BRUMFIEL: To get Starship to do any one of these things, it has to be rapidly reusable, and that means both the rocket and its giant, superheavy booster have to be able to actually fly back to the ...

The high-altitude explosion of one of SpaceX's supersized Starship rockets last year temporarily ripped a hole in the upper atmosphere, a new study from Russian scientists shows. It is the first ...

SpaceX Starship/Superheavy Launch and Catch Animation Musk revealed his desire to catch the Super Heavy in 2020, saying it would save SpaceX the cost of building landing legs for the rocket.

When SpaceX's Starship rocket blew up — again — it punched a hole open in our atmosphere, according to new research. Four minutes after launching from SpaceX's facility in Boca Chica, Texas ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch its eighth test flight of the massive Starship rocket on Monday, which will include another attempt to catch its Super Heavy booster at the launchpad with mechanical ...