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SpaceX has launched its massive Starship rocket eight times and caught its Super Heavy booster three times in the giant mechanical arms of Mechazilla. Unlike Starship’s upper stage, the booster is now ready for its next steps toward achieving launch, landing, and reuse. In a post shared on Thursday, SpaceX revealed that it was prepping to launch a Super Heavy Booster that had already flown before. The booster previously lifted off and returned during the rocket’s seventh test flight on January
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NASA has officially added SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket to its roster — despite the vehicle never having completed a single successful test flight, let alone a mission. The space agency announced last week that it had awarded SpaceX a "modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship to their existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings." As the agency explains, these contracts "provide a broad range of commercial launch services for NASA’s plane
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SpaceX Elon Musk is adamant that his space company will eventually make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent presence on Mars. It's an extremely ambitious plan, and one that intimately involves the company's massive Starship rocket. If his characteristically unrealistic timelines are anything to go by, the first crewed trip to the Red Planet could take place "as soon as 2029, although 2031 is more likely," he asserted in a March 15 tweet. But not everybody would agree with that
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First things first: do we really need a new take on Starship Troopers? Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s classic 1959 novel has become a classic in its own right, satirizing ideas about fascism and the military-industrial complex with a uniquely potent cheekiness. It also gave us Neil Patrick Harris as a psychic who talks to alien bugs, Denise Richards as a kick-ass starship pilot, and Michael Ironside as a grizzled yet fierce squad leader—plus squishy violence, weird sports,
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Starship, the SpaceX megarocket that's slated to bring astronauts to the Moon and perhaps one day Mars, is hitting a major snag in its development: the latest version of the spacecraft, known as Block 2, is performing worse than its predecessor, in the New York Time's analysis. On Thursday, during Starship's eighth orbital flight test, the vehicle's upper stage exploded, showering debris down over the coast of Florida. Worse, it marked the second time that the Block 2 Starship blew up; a simila
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SpaceX’s Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas and dealing another setback to Elon Musk’s rocket program after a failure under similar circumstances less than two months ago. Starship and its Super Heavy booster, loaded with millions of pounds of methane and liquid oxygen propellants, lumbered off their launchpad in Texas at 5:30 pm Central time to begin the eighth full-scale test flight of SpaceX’s new-generation rocket. T
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) opted to halt flights to several airports in Florida on Thursday night after SpaceX’s Starship upper stage disintegrated, raining debris over the coast. The botched test flight disrupted airports in Miami, Orlando, Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, as well as Philadelphia, in a worrying trend of SpaceX rockets hogging airspace. SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifted off on Thursday, March 6 around 6:30 p.m. ET from Boca Chica, Texas for its eighth test flight. T
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SpaceX's Starship has, once again, exploded — and CEO Elon Musk does not seem to be taking it well at all. After investor and avowed Tesla hater Dan O'Dowd poked fun at the billionaire for setting off a "huge fireworks display for the Caribbean" when Starship's eighth test flight ended in a spectacular explosion, Musk seems to be posting through it. Responding to O'Dowd's post, the multi-hyphenate business owner tagged the "R*tard Finder" account — a profile with an appalling name which claims
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) opted to halt flights to several airports in Florida on Thursday night after SpaceX’s Starship upper stage disintegrated, raining debris over the coast. The botched test flight disrupted airports in Miami, Orlando, Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, as well as Philadelphia, in a worrying trend of SpaceX rockets hogging airspace. SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifted off on Thursday, March 6 around 6:30 p.m. ET from Boca Chica, Texas for its eighth test flight. T
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NASA's Space Shuttle successfully reached orbit during its first attempt in April 1981. The Saturn V rocket that launched the first humans to the Moon also didn't explode during liftoff in July 1969. Even NASA's ultra-expensive and expendable Space Launch System didn't erupt into a giant fireball during its maiden voyage in late 2022. But SpaceX has taken a strikingly different approach for its reusable, two-stage rockets. Instead of lining up an orbital-ready vehicle on the launch pad, the com
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Similar to the aftermath from SpaceX’s failed seventh test flight on January 16th, yesterday’s explosion following the launch of Starship’s eighth test flight created another spectacle in the night sky as debris rained down over parts of the Caribbean causing flights to be delayed and diverted in Florida a
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SpaceX has lost another Starship, as the vehicle's eighth test flight ended in an explosion just like its seventh. The first few minutes of the flight went according to plan: SpaceX launched the Starship rocket from its Starbase facility in Texas at 6:30PM Eastern time on March 6, and its first stage Super Heavy booster flew back down and was successfully captured by the launch tower's "chopstick" arms. The event marked the third time SpaceX was able to capture the booster with the tower's mecha
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SpaceX's Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas and dealing another setback to Elon Musk's rocket program after a failure under similar circumstances less than two months ago. Starship and its Super Heavy booster, loaded with millions of pounds of methane and liquid oxygen propellants, lumbered off their launch pad in Texas at 5:30 pm CST (6:30 pm EST; 23:30 UTC) to begin the eighth full-scale test flight of SpaceX's new-gen
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SpaceX’s Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight on Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle has run into a fatal problem on its way to orbit. The company launched Starship using its Super Heavy booster and things looked normal for the first eight minutes of the flight prior to the problem. The ship successfully separated and headed into space, while the booster came back to the company’s launchpad in Texas, where it was caught for a third time
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If you were searching Google for SpaceX news ahead of this week's delayed Starship launch, be warned! You might have run into AI slop masquerading as news — which often floated to the top of Google results ahead of real journalism. Google has been promoting an AI slop-filled "science" site titled Science Magazine — which publishes bizarre, error-ridden articles alongside fantastical AI-generated images of nonexistent spacecraft and other oddities — in coveted positions in Google results, includ
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Another hold-up. SpaceX was forced to call off the eighth flight test of its mammoth Starship spacecraft just minutes before the rocket was supposed to launch from the company's facility in Boca Chica, Texas. On Monday evening, several unspecified issues related to the 403-foot rocket's Super Heavy booster were flagged by engineers, according to SpaceFlightNow, less than a half hour before its scheduled 5:45 launch time. After placing a temporary hold, SpaceX decided to scrub the launch entire
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Update: 6:55 p.m. ET: SpaceX had to scrub today’s launch due to an unspecified issue. The company may try again tomorrow. We’ll keep you posted. Original article follows. SpaceX is gearing up for the eighth test flight of its Starship rocket, hoping to correct course following the explosive mishap that scattered tiny bits of the upper stage over the Atlantic Ocean in January. Starship is scheduled for liftoff on Monday during an hour-long launch window that opens at 6:30 p.m. ET. The launch w
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SpaceX is gearing up for the eighth test flight of its Starship rocket, hoping to correct course following the explosive mishap that scattered tiny bits of the upper stage over the Atlantic Ocean in January. Starship is scheduled for liftoff on Monday during an hour-long launch window that opens at 6:30 p.m. ET. The launch will be streamed live on SpaceX’s website and the company’s page on X, with the webcast beginning around 40 minutes before liftoff. “The upcoming flight will target objective
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SpaceX plans to launch the eighth full-scale test flight of its enormous Starship rocket as soon as Monday after receiving regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. The test flight will be a repeat of what SpaceX hoped to achieve on the previous Starship launch in January, when the rocket broke apart and showered debris over the Atlantic Ocean and Turks and Caicos Islands. The accident prevented SpaceX from completing many of the flight's goals, such as testing Starship's sa
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SpaceX's Super Heavy booster is seen on the launch pad, without the Starship atop, as it is prepared for launch from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on an uncrewed test flight, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. Feb. 27, 2025. Elon Musk's SpaceX has attained authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly its massive Starship rocket once again, the space regulator announced Friday. The Starship rocket broke up during the company's seventh test flight in January. The explosion cause
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We now know the likely cause of a Starship test flight failure that caused rocket parts to rain down over popular tourist destinations back in January, and forcing airlines to divert flights. The upper stage Starship spacecraft experienced a stronger-than-expected harmonic response, according to a statement from SpaceX. By harmonic response, engineers mean vibrations amplified by resonance. That, in turn, put increased stress on the propulsion system, likely causing the rocket to explode before
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SpaceX has revealed that its latest Starship prototype self-destructed during its flight last month following an oxygen leak, flashes, and "sustained fires" in its aft section. In an update posted to its website today, the Elon Musk-led space company admitted that "not every test objective was completed," but vowed that "lessons learned will roll directly into future vehicles to make them more capable as Starship advances toward full and rapid reuse." On January 16, SpaceX's towering Starship
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. SpaceX believes it knows what caused the explosion during the seventh test flight of its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster on January 16th, 2025. Fires in the aft section of Starship, located between the bottom of its liquid oxygen tank and rear heat shield, caused “all but one of Starship’s engines to execute controlled shut down seque
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SpaceX said Monday that last month’s Starship explosion was brought on by a cascading series of events caused by propellant leaks — a problem the company says has been addressed ahead of an eighth test flight that could happen as early as Friday. The spaceflight company is still waiting for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to either officially close the “mishap investigation” into the explosion, or specially authorize SpaceX to perform the flight while the investigation continues. Thi
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A little over a month after SpaceX's large Starship launch ended in an explosion over several Caribbean islands, the company is preparing its next rocket for a test flight. According to a notice posted by the Federal Aviation Administration, the eighth test flight of the Starship vehicle could take place as early as February 26 from the Starbase launch site in South Texas. The launch window extends from 5:30 pm local time (23:30 UTC) to 7:09 pm (01:09 UTC). Company sources confirmed that this
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A little over a month after SpaceX's large Starship launch ended in an explosion over several Caribbean islands, the company is preparing its next rocket for a test flight. According to a notice posted by the Federal Aviation Administration, the eighth test flight of the Starship vehicle could take place as early as February 26 from the Starbase launch site in South Texas. The launch window extends from 5:30 pm local time (23:30 UTC) to 7:09 pm (01:09 UTC). Company sources confirmed that this
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