Starship Super Heavy Engines

SpaceX, Starship and SuperHeavy

SpaceX catches Super Heavy booster on Starship Flight 7 test but loses upper stage (video, photos)

Starship's previous six test flights occurred in April and November of 2023 and March, June, October and November of last year. SpaceX aimed to conduct a chopsticks catch of Super Heavy on Flight 6 as well, but a communication issue with the launch tower nixed that try, and the booster diverted for a Gulf of Mexico splashdown.

Astronomy on MSN · 5h

SpaceX Starship Flight 7 explodes midair, but Super Heavy booster catch successful

Losing the Block 2 Starship on its debut flight was not the optimal outcome. But SpaceX still managed to make significant progress on Flight 7. In October, SpaceX made history by snaring the Super Heavy booster from the sky using a pair of metal chopstick arms attached to a tower on the launch pad,

Tribune News Service on MSN · 1d

SpaceX catches booster again, but loses Starship upper stage during test flight

SpaceX sent up its first test flight of the year for its Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Texas catching the booster for just the second time back at the launch site, but suffering a loss of

SpaceX, Starship and Elon Musk

Space on MSN · 17h

SpaceX Starship explosion likely caused by propellant leak, Elon Musk says

"Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity."

Forbes on MSN · 1d

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Test-Launch Of Starship Ends In ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’

SpaceX launched Starship on Thursday for a seventh test flight, after weather concerns pushed back an experiment that will feature the spacecraft’s first payload deployment test, and while it successfully caught the Super Heavy Booster, Starship lost connection and “experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly.”

MarketWatch on MSN · 14h

SpaceX’s Starship blew up. Elon Musk says it’s ‘barely a bump in the road.’

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk described the explosion of the company’s Starship spacecraft during its seventh flight test Thursday as “barely a bump in the road,” underlining the momentum behind the commercial space giant.

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN9h

SpaceX’s Starship Explodes in Its Seventh Test Flight, With Falling Debris Putting on a Fiery Show

The Super Heavy booster, meanwhile, was successfully caught in the launch tower's mechanical arms for only the second time ...

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‘New generation’ Starship pushes boundaries as it lifts off on latest test flight

SpaceX’s colossal Starship megarocket just took flight for the vehicle’s seventh uncrewed test flight, blazing up the 33 ...

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SpaceX’s fiery Starship explosion put on a fantastic show but delayed and diverted flights

The company says that “Starship flew within its designated launch corridor” and “any surviving pieces of debris would have ...

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SpaceX's Starship spacecraft is apparently destroyed after launch test: Watch video

The uncrewed Starship spacecraft was apparently destroyed during its first flight launch of 2025 that blasted off from south ...

FAA calls for mishap investigation after Starship explodes

The Federal Aviation Administration will require SpaceX to conduct a mishap investigation following the apparent midair explosion of Starship S33 during the company's seventh suborbital Starship test ...

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