SpaceX has shared some stunning footage of the Starship's 33 Raptor engines firing up at the start of the rocket's eighth flight test last week.
SpaceX pulled off the rocket booster catch maneuver during its eighth test flight but the Starship spacecraft exploded over the Caribbean, according to reports from residents.
SpaceX said Monday that last month's Starship explosion was brought on by a cascading series of events caused by propellant leaks — a problem the company ...
SpaceX launched its huge Starship rocket on the program's eighth test flight Thursday, but a malfunction of some sort triggered multiple upper stage engine shutdowns and the vehicle failed to reach ...
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On Thursday, the Raptor engines began shutting down on Starship about eight minutes into the flight, and the rocket started tumbling 90 miles (146 kilometers) over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.
While the Starship’s booster successfully returned to the launchpad, the upper-stage spacecraft failed in space and lost several engines and attitude control on March 6, tumbling in space.
Footage of Starship’s explosion, captured from Florida, was shared to X by Trevor Mahlmann. In the 30-second clip, a bright flash is followed by what appears to be an expanding, spiraling cloud in the ...
According to the SpaceX statement, the problem detected in Starship’s aft section tonight “resulted in the loss of several Raptor engines. This in turn led to a loss of attitude control and ...
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 has so far successfully completed the booster catch maneuver twice. The Starship craft will ignite its own engines, continuing on a suborbital trajectory. SpaceX’s key test objectives for ...