The time is ticking for SpaceX's Starship. The behemoth spacecraft has yet to successfully orbit the Earth, but NASA is nonetheless planning to use it to ferry astronauts from the Moon's orbit down to the surface just over two years from now.

In 3 test launches this year, 2 exploded prematurely, and a third failed to deploy its test satellites and spun out of control as it returned to Earth. Those failures have led to increasing

SpaceX has finally managed a test flight of Starship without anything creating an impromptu firework display. Aside from some very minor issues, Flight Test 10 was a complete success for the company. This will be a great relief to its engineers and NASA managers, who depend on Elon Musk's mighty rocket for their lunar ambitions.

SpaceX said the rocket still achieved several key milestones, including the successful firing of its 33 Raptor engines in the booster and the opening of a payload door. Nov. 18, 2023: Starship makes it further in second test, but still explodes During the ...

Starship prepares to launch: Recap of Trump-Musk feud, other SpaceX news since last flight Plenty has happened with SpaceX and Elon Musk since the last Starship rocket launch from Starbase in Texas.

SpaceX, the commercial rocket company founded by Elon Musk, is about to launch Starship on its 10th flight since April 2023. What's happened before?

Starship's giant first-stage booster, named Super Heavy, has performed better as of late. For example, the booster successfully returned to Starbase for a dramatic catch by the launch tower's "chopstick" arms on both Flight 7 and Flight 8.

The SpaceX Starship spacecraft successfully made its way to the splashdown site in the Indian Ocean. This was the tenth flight test of the Starship spacecraft and super-heavy rocket booster, after the launch was scrubbed twice in a row this week.