Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...

SpaceX lost all communications with Starship's upper stage after it was able to catch the ship's massive rocket booster in ... vehicle tip and away from the heat shield, significantly reducing ...

SpaceX launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship mega rocket on ... a Falcon 9 upper stage. But Thursday's test flight featured multiple experiments to test a variety of heat shield improvements ...

SpaceX is ready to send up its first test flight of the year for its Starship and Super Heavy rocket ... heat shield solutions. SpaceX is not yet ready to try a recovery landing of the upper stage ...

SpaceX caught the Starship rocket’s Super Heavy booster for a second time, after it launched the upper stage into space on ... put a number of different heat tiles on the ship, to test which ...

The test flight was a success; the rocket's upper stage successfully carried its payload, a test version of Blue Origin's new Blue Ring spacecraft platform, to Earth orbit. A secondary objective ...

The rocket's upper stage blew up at an altitude of around 90 ... The atoms of nitrogen heat up and react with oxygen, creating the harmful oxides. With the expected increase in rocket launches ...

The upper stage of a SpaceX Starship launch system, the most powerful rocket ever built ... Broken hexagon tiles — likely part of Starship’s heat shield — littered the roadway where Kaine ...