SpaceX’s 9th Starship Flight Ends in Failure But Shows Big Progress

SpaceX’s 9th Starship Flight Ends in Failure But Shows Big Progress

SpaceX’s Starship IFT-9 saw its booster and ship destroyed, but key reuse, separation, and heat shield milestones marked progress.

SpaceX's Starship test flight ends with uncontrolled re-entry

After two explosive failures earlier this year, SpaceX made progress Tuesday with its latest Starship test flight — even as the mission failed to complete a satellite deployment demonstration. The 403-foot rocket, the largest and most powerful ever built, lifted off from Starbase in South Texas. The company hoped the upper stage would travel halfway around the world before splashing down in the Indian Ocean. That goal was partially met, but a do…

SpaceX's 9th Starship test flight ends with two bangs in South Texas

Neither Starship nor Super Heavy survived.

Comparison of SpaceX’s Starship with winged heavy-lift launcher options for Europe

The remarkable progress SpaceX made in the first four integrated flight tests of their Starship and Super Heavy launcher configuration indicates that a ful

Starship lifted off Tuesday evening local time from SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas, base on its ninth test flight. It was the most successful test so far this year, separating from its Super Heavy rocket and entering orbit, a major step forward in the development of the most powerful launch system in history. A new chapter in testing: the first reusable rocket The ninth flight was the first to use the “flight-proven” Super Heavy — a rocket that had …

SpaceX has launched a ninth unmanned test flight from Starbase, Texas, with Starship, the most powerful rocket system ever built. But this flight, too, did not go as hoped.