SpaceX sent up its first test flight of the year for its Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Texas catching the booster for ...

ORLANDO — SpaceX ... of thrust at liftoff, making it the most powerful rocket in history to reach space, although so far all the test flights have been suborbital with the upper Starship stage ...

SpaceX sent ... be needed when Starship is used for NASA’s Artemis moon missions. The Super Heavy booster powered by 33 Raptor engines produces up to 16.7 million pounds of thrust at liftoff ...

SpaceX is not yet ready to try a recovery landing of the upper stage, though, so it will aim for a splashdown again a little more than an hour after launch. On board will be 10 Starlink-size ...

“If you just test similar designs, similar thrust levels ... from the Saturn V to the SpaceX Starship. And because you can only optimize the nozzle for one atmospheric regime, a sea-level ...

Landing and reusing boosters are critical to reducing costs in the commercial space industry, a feat pioneered by SpaceX’s ...

SpaceX Starship V3 will be 20-30 meters taller with a proposed height of 140 to 150 meters. This increase in height is aimed at accommodating more propellant, thus increasing payload capacity. SpaceX ...

A nuclear thermal rocket could potentially achieve double or triple the Delta-V of a SpaceX Starship with just the full orbital refueling. But to move large payloads of 100-200 tons, then the thrust ...

The rapid unscheduled disassembly (aka explosion) of SpaceX's Starship megarocket that rained scorching fragments of metal across the Caribbean in mid-January may have released significant amounts ...

It was supposed to attempt to reach near orbital speeds and deploy 10 dummy spacecraft, designed to mimic the size, shape and weight of the upgraded SpaceX Starlink satellites that Starship will ...