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SpaceX's Starship flight 7 didn't achieve all it set out to For the first time, SpaceX flew Starship with a reused Raptor rocket engine. The Super Heavy booster runs on 33 Raptor engines.
SpaceX has had five previous Starship test flights, starting in April 2023, with each test steadily resulting in progress. During the first two attempts, in April and November of last year, engine ...
The Starship upper stage, two metres (6.56 ft) taller than previous versions, was a "new generation ship with significant upgrades", SpaceX said before the test.
SpaceX’s colossal Starship rocket blasted off Thursday on its most complex test flight yet, with Elon Musk looking to repeat a booster capture with giant mechanical arms and adding a new twist.
Telemetry from the Starship froze eight minutes and 27 seconds after launch, moments after engines began shutting down. "We (lost) all communications with the ship," a SpaceX launch commentator said.
SpaceX has flown the full Starship rocket system on six spaceflight tests so far since April 2023, at a steadily increasing cadence. The Super Heavy booster, which stands 232 feet tall, is what ...
The Starship vehicle — which includes the upper Starship spacecraft and a rocket booster known as the Super Heavy — took off from SpaceX’s private Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, at ...
The SpaceX Starship lifts off from Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on Nov. 19, 2024, for the Starship Flight 6 test. / Credit: CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images