The gargantuan rocket blasted off from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and flight test facility on the Gulf Coast at 5:37 p.m. Eastern Time, firing up 33 methane-burning Raptor engines ...

It’s made up of two parts: the Starship spacecraft, which is designed to carry crew and cargo into orbit, and the Super Heavy Booster, which comes with 33 SpaceX Raptor engines that help propel ...

The more than 400-foot rocket, powered by 33 Raptor engines, appeared to lift off successfully at 4:37 p.m. CT from SpaceX's launchpad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. But minutes ...

SpaceX flew Starship with a reused Raptor rocket engine. The Super Heavy booster runs on 33 Raptor engines. For the entire rocket to be reusable, as Musk has said he intends it to be, those ...

Normal operations resumed shortly thereafter. The rocket launched from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas, facility, with 33 Raptor engines generating up to 16 million pounds of thrust. The Super Heavy ...

SpaceX lost contact with Ship around 8.5 minutes into flight, apparently after the vehicle suffered some kind of anomaly. All six of Ship's Raptor engines fired up during the stage's ascent burn ...

The company also plans to once again reignite its Raptor engines in space to attempt an orbital burn — a crucial maneuver to one day bring a vehicle back to the ground. SpaceX will host a ...

After launching more than 100 small payloads from California on Tuesday and two commercial moon landers from Florida early Wednesday, both atop Falcon 9 rockets, SpaceX readied a huge Super Heavy ...

“Initial data indicates a fire developed in the aft section of the ship, leading to a rapid unscheduled disassembly,” SpaceX said in a statement. That came after all six Raptor engines ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in ... slowing its descent from space by reigniting its Raptor engines as it hooked itself on giant mechanical arms fixed to ...