Ahead of the launch, Musk's company also upgraded the booster 'catch' tower after it was damaged during a previous test flight in November. It's not the first time a SpaceX Starship has been lost ...

The rocket company’s effort to demonstrate payload deployment, land its upper stage and potentially achieve ...

SpaceX's Starship rocket is pictured after launching as seen from South Padre Island near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. January 16, 2025. (Photo source: Reuters) A SpaceX Starship prototype failed ...

Starship prototype fails after launch from Texas ... by reigniting its Raptor engines as it hooked itself on giant mechanical arms fixed to a launch tower.

A minute before the loss, SpaceX used the launch tower's giant mechanical arms to catch the returning booster, a feat ...

Flights near the Turks and Caicos islands were spotted diverting to avoid debris after SpaceX's Starship exploded on Thursday. SpaceX was conducting its seventh test flight of its unmanned ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX lost its 400-foot-tall Starship in space where it was destroyed after launching the rocket from Texas Thursday in its seventh test flight. The engines of the new and improved ...

SpaceX's latest test launch of its Starship spacecraft on Thursday resulted in the destruction of its vehicle, after the spacecraft broke up just over eight minutes after its blast-off. The company ...

While Super Heavy is already safely back home in the arms of its launch tower, the Starship spacecraft — which is meant to lap Earth and splash down in the Indian Ocean — has stopped ...

At the end of the flight, the SpaceX will attempt to catch the SLH booster and Starship spaceship mid-air at the launch tower with mechanical arms dubbed ‘chopsticks’. Musk has dubbed the tower as ...

While the Starship is lost, the super heavy first-stage booster successfully executed a controlled descent back to the launch tower, where it was caught by the launch tower's giant robotic arms.

made it back down to Starbase for a dramatic catch by its launch tower's "chopstick" arms. But some eight minutes into the flight, SpaceX lost contact with the Starship upper stage, known as Ship.