SpaceX has turned heads and tested boundaries with each test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket system ever constructed. And the latest mission of the nearly 400-foot-tall (121-meter ...

SpaceX is also flying rudimentary catch fittings on Starship to test their thermal performance on reentry. The ship will fly a more demanding trajectory during descent to probe the structural limits ...

Starship is SpaceX’s in-development, next-generation rocket design that's built to be entirely reusable. It features a new ...

SpaceX plans to launch the seventh full-scale test flight of its massive Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket Thursday ...

“Improved versions of the ship & booster already waiting for launch 🚀” Thursday’s launch featured what Huot’s colleague Kate Tice described before liftoff as a “next generation upper-stage design” ...

the first of which is slated to take off as soon as 2027 The imminent flight will test an upgrade of Starship that aims to improve the vehicle’s capabilities — and ability to survive the trip home ...

But the bulk of the upgrades being tested Thursday are built into what SpaceX calls a "new generation" Starship. Multiple systems have been modified to improve performance and to test systems ...