It's the second time SpaceX has managed this particular feat. However, as crowds cheered the booster's return, the company said it had lost contact with Starship as the engines went out.

The evolution of SpaceX's Raptor Engine from 2019 to 2024 is a masterclass in efficiency and innovation. The complexity of Raptor 1 has given way to the streamlined simplicity of Raptor 3.

For the second time, SpaceX caught a super-heavy booster with the “chopsticks” launch tower arms. Initially, only 12 of 13 Raptor engines relit for the boostback burn to return to the launch ...

During the initial seconds of flight, SpaceX’s Starship appeared to fly smoothly, and the rocket’s Raptor engines operated correctly during take-off. However, things quickly went awry when, at ...

Jan. 21 (UPI) --Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a pair of Falcon 9 rockets loaded with a combined four dozen Starlink communication satellites into space Tuesday morning from both U.S. coasts.

Despite a promising ascent out of Texas, USA, staff lost contact with the spacecraft only eight minutes and thirty seconds into the flight. SpaceX said the vehicle’s six engines appeared to shut down ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its colossal ... ordinary test events.” “Blown engines were par for the course in testing aircraft prototypes and were inevitable in testing an entirely ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest ... it called a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." The spacecraft's six engines appeared to shut down one by one during ascent, with contact lost ...

18 (UPI) --The Federal Aviation Administration has paused SpaceX's launch of its Starship ... Starship's upper stage successfully lit all six Raptor engines and performed its ascent burn to ...

SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight ... The booster slowed its descent by reigniting its Raptor engines and was safely secured by mechanical arms on the launch ...

marking the second time SpaceX successfully caught the Super Heavy booster with its launch tower. It was also the first time one of the booster’s Raptor engines was reused from a previous flight.