While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

James Temple was "in the right place at the right time" to take these dramatic images of SpaceX's Starship's seventh flight ...

A nuclear thermal rocket could potentially achieve double or triple the Delta-V of a SpaceX Starship with just the full orbital refueling. But to move large payloads of 100-200 tons, then the thrust ...

Debris from a Starship rocket over Turks & Caicos. The Independent/YouTube Nearly a week after SpaceX’s megarocket broke apart into tiny pieces of fiery debris, the rocket company is having to ...

SpaceX Starship and its Super Heavy booster launching. Watch view of the liftoff in slow motion from a launch tower camera.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has described the explosion of the company’s Starship spacecraft during its seventh flight test Thursday as “barely a bump in the road,” underlining the momentum behind ...

Falcon Heavy by SpaceX has a cost per kilogram to LEO of approximately $1,400 per kg. This figure reflects the cost-effectiveness achieved through partial reusability and high payload capacity. A ...

SpaceX’s Starship flew for the seventh time on January 16, 2024, nearly taking off but impacting a cloud of explosive debris. Meanwhile, on completion of space exploration debris is raining down from ...

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites early this morning (Jan. 21), five days after a test flight of the company's Starship megarocket ended in an explosion.

The rocket company’s effort to demonstrate payload deployment, land its upper stage and potentially achieve spaceship-to-spaceship fuel transfer this year had an inauspicious start when the Starship ...

SpaceX Starship 25 and Super Heavy booster 9 launched to orbit from the Starbase facility in South Texas. Following the ...