"Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough ...

The rocket company’s effort to demonstrate payload deployment, land its upper stage and potentially achieve spaceship-to-spaceship fuel transfer this year had an inauspicious start when the Starship ...

The rocket, powered by 33 methane-burning Raptor engines ... us improve Starship's… See Also: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin’s New Glenn Reaches Orbit On First Try: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Applauds ...

The booster will fire its 33 Raptor engines for about 2 ½ ... and has previously charred Starship’s flaps into “skeleton hands,” as Musk put it, under the jarring physics of reentry.