Feedback sought: FAA conducts scoping for Starship assessment
The Federal Aviation Administration is soliciting feedback during a public scoping period as part of a draft environmental assessment (EA) of SpaceX’s plans to...
First-of-its-kind: SpaceX SN8 makes successful test flight
"Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!! ”was SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk’s response not long after the explosive crash landing of SN8 following a successful...
SpaceX aborts test launch of SN8 at final second
Sometimes rocket science is super anticlimactic.
Such was the case at 4:35 p.m. Tuesday outside Brownsville, when SpaceX's planned launch of the SN8 Starship prototype...
SN8 poised for launch today
SpaceX is poised to make the first high-altitude, suborbital test flight from Boca Chica Beach today, with the SN8 Starship prototype.
As with every launch,...
Starship may fly this week; Planned test would take rocket to 50,000 feet
SpaceX may conduct its first high-altitude test flight from the company's Boca Chica site this week, according to SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk.
Musk...
SpaceX conducts multi-engine test; Plans are to fly prototype to 50,000 feet from Boca Chica
At 3:14 a.m. Tuesday SpaceX conducted a successful static-fire test of the three engines mounted in its SN8 Starship prototype at the company’s Boca...
Starship fires engines
SpaceX conducted a successful static fire of the Starship SN8 prototype's three rocket engines early this morning at the company's Boca Chica complex.
The test...
SpaceX pops tank; Musk: Next flight to aim for 60,000 feet
A couple of minutes before 6 a.m. Wednesday, SpaceX’s Starship SN7.1 test tank ruptured in a vast plume of liquid nitrogen vapor.
It was done...
SN6 hops: SpaceX achieves third test flight at Boca Chica
Shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday, SpaceX test successfully hopped its SN6 Starship prototype to 500 feet at Boca Chica, 30 days after a 500-foot...
Musk updates Starship progress SN6 prototype could fly as early as today
As SpaceX prepares for a 500-foot hop of its SN6 Starship prototype at Boca Chica possibly as early as today, the company’s founder and...
