SpaceX's Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket exploded during a test flight on Tuesday, the third consecutive setback for Elon Musk's company. Tuesday's un-crewed mission was the ninth test flight.

SpaceX is preparing for its latest Starship test launch Tuesday following back-to-back failures earlier this year — as Elon Musk hopes to have the rocket ready for a Mars mission next year.

The FAA last week cleared SpaceX's Starship to fly again after concluding its review of the previous flight, which ended in an explosion, and the next test could now take off as soon as Tuesday.

May 22 (UPI) --The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the launch of SpaceX's Starship 9 after two mission mishaps idled the program for months. "The FAA conducted a comprehensive safety ...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has cleared SpaceX's giant Starship rocket for its ninth-ever liftoff. The FAA announced the decision today (May 22) after taking a long look at the ...

The Starship spacecraft heading for preflight testing ahead of its ninth flight atop the Super Heavy booster. SpaceX SpaceX is gearing up for the ninth test flight of its Starship megarocket.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has recently been given an approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that allows the company to stage launches for its Starship program every other week.

SpaceX is having trouble with Starship's upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making remarkable progress with the rocket's enormous booster. The most visible sign of SpaceX ...

Nine minutes into the mission, the ship began spinning out of control. Seven weeks after an explosion sent pieces of a Starship launch vehicle falling into the Atlantic, SpaceX on Thursday again ...

SpaceX's eighth Starship flight test on Thursday resulted in an explosion, the second of such uncrewed tests since January. Nine minutes after the launch, SpaceX lost communication with the ...

The upper portion of SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded once again minutes into its Thursday flight test, creating a cascade of fiery debris visible from Florida to the Caribbean.

SpaceX launched its huge Starship rocket on the program's eighth test flight Thursday, but a malfunction of some sort triggered multiple upper stage engine shutdowns and the vehicle failed to ...