SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made light of Starship's fiery end. "Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!" he said on X.
The second stage of Starship, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, was lost on Thursday after a smooth launch from SpaceX’s Boca Chica base in southern Texas. Before confirming the news, SpaceX,
The last time a Starship upper stage failed was in March of last year, as it was re-entering Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, but rarely has a SpaceX mishap caused widespread disruptions to air traffic. Dozens of commercial flights diverted to ...
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Thursday’s ill-fated SpaceX test launch was supposed to terminate in the Indian Ocean after an hour of flight.
The last time a Starship upper stage failed was in March last year, as it was reentering Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
Who's up for a late-night launch? Weather permitting, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket should be visible on the Treasure Coast after liftoff on Wednesday.
The FAA says it has grounded the Starship vehicle pending a mishap investigation, and it’s working with SpaceX to assess reports of property damage in Turks and Caicos.
Passengers on Qantas flights between Sydney and Johannesburg have encountered unexpected delays recently, with the airline attributing the disruptions to falling rocket debris from Elon Musk ’s SpaceX. The southern Indian Ocean, a region frequently crossed by Qantas flights, has become a designated splashdown zone for re-entering SpaceX rockets.
A SpaceX Starship prototype failed in space minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course.
SpaceX's latest flight test of its colossal Starship vehicle turned out to be an explosive one – literally. While the launch ended with one major accomplishment – the second-ever successful ...
Starship experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," which is a phrase SpaceX coined to describe an explosion.