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SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight

SpaceX was more than lucky Friday, sending its 13th full-scale Starship test flight halfway around the world from South Texas […]

SpaceX called off a test flight of its powerful Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster as the countdown clock reached […]

This flight will put Starship under higher pressure and test out new Starlink satellites in orbit. Thirty-three Raptor engines will […]

SpaceX has more to prove before flying Starship all the way to low-Earth orbit. A spacecraft deployed from Starship captured […]

SpaceX got within 40 seconds of launching the first flight of a taller, more powerful version of its Starship rocket […]

On Monday, SpaceX’s launch team loaded more than 11 million pounds (more than 5,000 metric tons) of super-cold methane and […]

The upgraded Super Heavy booster slated to launch SpaceX’s next Starship flight has completed cryogenic proof testing, clearing a hurdle […]

Friday morning’s failure was less energetic than an explosion of a Starship upper stage during testing at Massey’s in June. […]

This was the last flight of SpaceX’s second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year. Thirty-three methane-fueled Raptor engines power […]

Future flights of Starship will end with returns to Starbase, where the launch tower will try to catch the vehicle […]