The rocket took off about 7:48 a.m. to start what was expected to be a 10-hour flight to send the upper-stage Starship around Earth six times.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft reached the Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday following a 4-mile, 12-hour crawl from the Vehicle Assembly ...

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) After back-to-back explosions, SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship again on ...

Though not without some drama along the way.

SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight Monday, successfully making it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites like last time. Starship—the biggest ...

SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion in Starship, but after several delays it said it plans to put the mega rocket to work before the end of the year. Investors will get their first look at the new ...

First, there was a hydrogen leak, and now an interrupted flow of helium. These two elements, it seems, have colluded to make a launch of the Artemis II mission impossible first in February, then in ...

The Artemis SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2022. NASA NASA is gearing up to send its first ...

Blue Origin's new mega-rocket, New Glenn, is no longer grounded. The company said Friday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the rocket to fly again after the upper stage failed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In what the company called "a major anomaly" SpaceX's Starship exploded late Wednesday, June 18, shooting a massive fireball and ...

SpaceX is set to launch the 11th full-scale test flight of the company’s Starship rocket Monday evening, with hopes of capping a tumultuous year with a successful one-hour voyage from South Texas to ...