Elon Musk claimed that the Raptor 3 is the “best rocket engine ever”, a title based on its unprecedented combination of thrust, weight reduction, and extreme simplification. The Raptor ...

Update May 27, 8:42 p.m. EDT (0042 GMT): SpaceX launched Flight Test 9 of its Super Heavy Starship rocket at 7:37 p.m. EDT (2337 GMT; 6:37 p.m. local time in Starbase, Texas). The Super Heavy booster ...

Watch SpaceX doused a steel plate with water and then blast Raptor engine fire into it. The private spaceflight company's ...

Starship spacecraft enables Mars colonization with reusable design, orbital refueling, and 100+ passenger capacity for ...

SpaceX is getting closer to launching the world's largest rocket once again on a critical flight test later in May. Were the Starship vehicle to launch in the coming weeks, it could come more than two ...

SpaceX will make a third attempt as early as May 27 to send a next-generation Starship vehicle into a suborbital test flight around Earth following the loss of two Starships earlier this year. In an ...

SpaceX launched its mighty Starship rocket for the eighth time last week. The mission was a bit of mixed bag, with the team successfully catching the first-stage Super Heavy booster on its return to ...

On March 6, 2025, Starship’s eighth flight test successfully lifted off at 5:30 p.m. CT from Starbase in Texas. All 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster started up successfully and completed a ...

STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A crowd of people gathered around to witness SpaceX launch its 11th Starship test flight on Monday evening in Starbase. At approximately 6:25 p.m., SpaceX launched ...

SpaceX fired six Raptor engines on the company's next Starship rocket on Monday, clearing a major hurdle on the path to launch later this month on a high-stakes test flight to get the private rocket ...

Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Elon Musk is angry with the lack of progress SpaceX has made in developing the Raptor engines that power its Starship rocket. He described a ...