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When a SpaceX Starship rocket went up in a fiery explosion in June 2025, it amplified criticism regarding the company's recent string of test failures. This was the fourth straight failure of the Elon ...

SpaceX plans to conduct the 11th flight test of its Starship spacecraft Monday, Oct. 13, from Starbase, Texas. SpaceX is looking to build off the momentum of its most successful launch of the year in ...

Scrub recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Saturday, Nov. 8, scrubbed launch attempt of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 10-51 mission. Original story: ...

Starship got off the ground Monday, Oct. 13 from SpaceX's Starbase headquarters in South Texas. Starship’s upper stage, the vehicle where crew and cargo would one day ride, flew halfway around the ...

SpaceX on Thursday released the most detailed public update in nearly two years on its multibillion-dollar contract to land astronauts on the Moon for NASA, amid growing sentiment that China is likely ...

Two Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from spaceports in Florida and California on Sunday afternoon, adding 56 more satellites to SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network. The second of these two ...