EDT (1225 GMT; 7:25 a.m. local Texas time). The mission aimed to break new ground for Starship, and for spaceflight in general: SpaceX planned to return Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as ...
Fully stacked on the Super Heavy booster, Starship stands 397 feet tall and ... At its base are 33 Raptor engines, which together produce 16.7 million pounds of thrust — about double the 8.8 ...
Work on the orbital launch mount and Pad B continues, the final Block 1 ship expected to fly is preparing for launch, and ...
at 7:25 a.m. CT with all 33 of its Raptor engines firing flawlessly. Seven minutes into the flight test and after separating from the Starship’s vehicle, the rocket booster was successfully ...
Liftoff of the Super Heavy rocket booster, topped with the uncrewed Starship spacecraft, occurred at 8:25 a.m. ET (7:25 a.m. CT) during a 30-minute launch window that opened at 8 a.m. ET from SpaceX’s ...
Starship launched from SpaceX's Starbase launchpad just before 7:30 a.m. CT on Sunday as thousands ... successfully catching the rocket booster using the "chopstick"-like arms of the launch ...
Early Sunday morning, SpaceX will try something no one has ever done before. If all goes according to plan, around seven minutes after lifting off from South Texas, the huge stainless steel booster ...
Oct 13 (Reuters) - SpaceX in its fifth Starship test flight on Sunday returned the rocket's towering first stage booster back to its Texas launch pad for the first time using giant mechanical arms ...
The rocket's Super Heavy first stage booster lifted at 7:25 a.m. CT (12:25 GMT) from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas launch ...
lifted off from SpaceX's Boca Chica/Starbase launch site at 7:25 a.m. Sunday for the company's fifth Starship test flight. In a first, the Super Heavy booster rocket was successfully guided to the ...
7:25 a.m. update: Starship has lifted off from Starbase to begin its fifth test flight, a mission that will include the first attempt to return the lower-stage Super Heavy booster to Starbase for ...