SpaceX's Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas and dealing another setback to Elon Musk's rocket program after a failure under ...

SpaceX made multiple changes in the wake of a January Starship failure, only to suffer a second straight vehicle breakup Thursday.

Thirty-three Raptor engines propelled the 404-foot-tall (123.1-meter ... a sign that engineers are well on their way to mastering how to recover and reuse boosters in a similar way as they do with the ...

reliable reuse.” Gebhardt noted a few features of the upgraded engine: It “eliminates the large and heavy engine heat shields, which means that when we move from the Raptor 2 to the Raptor 3 ...

This revolutionary process allows SpaceX to reuse their booster engines during ... Elon Musk's team wanted to relight a single Raptor engine while in space. The starship module carries six of ...

The dramatic launch pad capture, SpaceX's third, is a key element in the company's plan to enable rapid refurbishment and reuse ... on the power of six Raptor engines, appearing to work flawlessly ...

The private space company led by CEO Elon Musk was trying again to fly an updated, larger version of the mega-rocket he says will someday colonize Mars, but engine failures led to a loss of ...