SpaceX Rolls Out Starship Super Heavy Booster for November 19 Flight Test

SpaceX Rolls Out Starship Super Heavy Booster for November 19 Flight Test

SpaceX is set for its sixth Starship test flight, scheduled for Tuesday, November 19, at the Starbase facility in South Texas. The massive Super Heavy booster, forming the first stage of the Starship rocket, was transported to the orbital launch pad on November 14, while the spacecraft itself, known simply…

SpaceX Starship Mars Mission Begins in 2026 with Uncrewed Flights, Elon Musk Reveals

SpaceX Starship Mars Mission Begins in 2026 with Uncrewed Flights, Elon Musk Reveals

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company aims to start launching Starship missions to Mars in 2026. These initial missions will be uncrewed and designed to test the reliability of landing safely on Mars. If these test flights are successful, the first crewed missions could begin…

FAA Sued by Environmentalists Over SpaceX’s Rocket Launch License for Texas

FAA Sued by Environmentalists Over SpaceX’s Rocket Launch License for Texas

Conservation groups sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday, challenging its approval of expanded rocket launch operations by Elon Musk‘s SpaceX next to a national wildlife refuge in South Texas without requiring greater environmental study. The federal court lawsuit comes 11 days after SpaceX made good on a newly granted…

SpaceX Starship Explodes Minutes After Liftoff; Elon Musk Says ‘Learned a Lot’

SpaceX Starship Explodes Minutes After Liftoff; Elon Musk Says ‘Learned a Lot’

SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft exploded minutes after liftoff in an uncrewed test flight from South Texas on Thursday, cutting short a key step in Elon Musk’s development of a rocket vessel to eventually take humans to the moon and Mars. The flight test was the first for Starship mounted atop…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX May Launch Starship Rocket System by Early December: NASA

Elon Musk’s SpaceX May Launch Starship Rocket System by Early December: NASA

SpaceX is targeting early December to launch its giant Starship rocket system into orbit for the first time, a pivotal demonstration flight as it aims to fly NASA astronauts to the moon in the next few years, a US official said on Monday. Billionaire Elon Musk‘s SpaceX has sought for…

FAA Sued by Environmentalists Over SpaceX’s Rocket Launch License for Texas

SpaceX to Fly First Space Tourist, Entrepreneur Dennis Tito, Around the Moon on Starship

SpaceX plans to announce two new space tourists slated to fly on the Starship rocket: Dennis Tito, the world’s first-ever space tourist in 2001, and his wife, Akiko.  The couple paid an undisclosed amount to fly around the moon on Starship once the vehicle is complete. They will travel with 10 other…