The company is also celebrating the third-ever catch of its Super Heavy booster, equipped with 33 Raptor engines.

The mission was a bit of mixed bag, with the team successfully catching the first-stage Super Heavy booster on its return to the launchpad, but losing the Starship spacecraft in a midair explosion ...

The more than 400-foot Starship, powered by a super heavy booster with 33 Raptor engines, lifted off successfully at 6:30 p.m. ET from SpaceX's launchpad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville ...

SpaceX catches 'Super Heavy' booster in mid-air for the 3rd time, Starship breaks apart SpaceX’s managed to pull off another impressive "Super" Heavy booster catch with its "Mechazilla", a ...

One of the goals of the flight was to catch the Super Heavy booster using the chopsticks on the launch tower, which was completed successfully. Starship's upper stage rocket is seen breaking ...

SpaceX marked a significant advancement in rocket reusability on Mar. 7 when the launch tower successfully caught its Super Heavy booster during Starship’s eighth test flight, though the mission ...

SpaceX postponed its eighth test of the hulking Starship rocket on Monday, following a flight controller hold placed due to a Super Heavy booster issue that wasn’t resolved in time for launch.

Flight 8’s launch and Super Heavy booster rocket separation was successful, with the booster returning to the pad. However, before reaching the engine cutoff point nearly nine minutes into the ...

But a couple of issues, including an undisclosed issue with the Super Heavy booster, cropped up during the countdown to the launch. While the booster issue didn’t appear to halt proceedings for ...

The flight profile once again called for the Super Heavy booster to fly back to the launch tower caught on the tower’s pivoting arms called chopsticks. The upper stage Starship then was supposed ...

Super Heavy Booster The Super Heavy booster, designed to loft the current 9-meter-diameter Starship, also has a 9-meter diameter. Mounting a 5-meter-diameter mini Starship atop it requires an adapter ...

Pressure was too low. They will destack and figure it out. This is the eighth fully integrated test flight of Starship with its Super Heavy booster, the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly.