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 ...

Huge cheers from SpaceX’s engineers and staff. Starship’s Superheavy booster has successfully disconnected and has begun falling back to Earth... This moment is critcal for SpaceX, which is ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Unlike in recent tests, SpaceX’s ninth Starship survived launch, but a fuel tank leak meant it lost control before it could complete its objectives.