How To Watch SpaceX's Next Starship Test Flight on Tuesday

SpaceX is gearing up for another integrated test flight Tuesday for its Starship launch vehicle, which is a fully reusable craft that has been designed with the intention of one day carrying humans and cargo through space. The May 27 test flight is Starship's ninth launch, although certain parts of the craft have exploded and been rebuilt since its first launch in April 2023. This test flight will be Starship's third launch in 2025. Recent Starship launches have ended in disaster twice, as the upper ship part of the launch vehicle exploded within Earth's atmosphere during the seventh and eighth test flights. The reusable booster rocket was successfully caught by SpaceX during these launches. SpaceX revealed in a written mission statement that the company is not planning on catching the booster during Tuesday's ninth test flight. The booster will be carrying instruments to measure data that could help SpaceX potentially improve performance and reliability on future iterations of the ... Read full article.