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 ...
Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear ... that is possible for a SpaceX Starship. The performance of the SpaceX Raptor ...
The image which has been shared all over social media, even caught the attention of Elon Musk ... and Starship upper stage. The test began with a nominal ascent powered by all 33 Raptor engines ...
If this promise can be delivered, it would most likely be SpaceX's Starship providing the transport. Humans on Mars has long been the ultimate goal of ... an engine − known as a Raptor engine ...
Watch SpaceX douse a steel plate with water and then blast Raptor engine fire into it. The private spaceflight company's ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is not happy with last week’s problem with Elon Musk’s Starship rocket which exploded over ... to an “oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine ...
Elon Musk celebrated Starship's explosive launch last week, writing on X that "entertainment is guaranteed." For some pilots and passengers, it was anything but entertaining. On Thursday ...
But with Trump apparently backing the Mars endeavor, Musk is anticipating potential regulatory relief that could accelerate Starship test launches, which he has previously claimed were hindered by ...