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SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell reiterated that the company's inaugural orbital launch attempt of its Starship spacecraft could end in an explosion.

SpaceX President Warns That Starship’s Orbital Launch May Explode

By Victor Tangermann

It seems like the birds may be coming home to roost with SpaceX's Starship after a bunch were seen flying (and dying) near its test site.

Huge Plume of Birds Explodes Out of SpaceX’s Powerful Starship Engine Test

By Noor Al-Sibai

The company just fired 31 of its gigantic Super Heavy booster's 33 rockets at once, producing a gargantuan amount of thrust.

Breaking: SpaceX Reaches Major Starship Milestone, Fires 31 Engines At Once

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has admitted that SpaceX "may or may not" use "expendable" upper stages to carry even more cargo into Earth's orbit.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX May Build Starship That Dies on Purpose

By Victor Tangermann

Given SpaceX's recent progress, CEO Elon Musk's latest promise that Starship will attempt to go orbital "soon" might actually signal an imminent attempt.

Elon Musk Promises Starship Will Attempt Orbital Launch “Soon”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is still hard at work to get its Starship and Super Heavy booster prototypes ready for their big day. But not everything is going according to plan.

SpaceX Tested Starship’s Engines and Accidentally Caused a Large Fire

By Victor Tangermann

With the help of Danish space design company SAGA Space Architects, students at a Swiss boarding school designed a futuristic three-story space habitat.

This Futuristic Space Condo Is Designed to Squish Into SpaceX’s Starship

By Victor Tangermann

While SpaceX is still assessing the damage to its Super Heavy booster prototype , SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is confident Starship could go orbital "next month."

Elon Musk: Starship Orbital Launch Could Happen “Next Month” Despite Unexpected Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX’s Booster 7 rocket prototype ignited in a massive fireball on Monday, stunning onlookers. A new photograph provides a closer look at the damage.

Close Up Photo Shows SpaceX Starship Booster After Mysterious Blast

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX Starship Booster Prototype Suddenly Goes Up in Flames

SpaceX Starship Booster Prototype Suddenly Goes Up in Flames

By Victor Tangermann

After video footage showed SpaceX's Starship prototype rolling onto its launch site, a Twitter user shared a stunning render of the Starship in NASA livery.

Beautiful Render Shows Starship With Full NASA Paint Job

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX has dragged its latest orbital launch ready Starship prototype to the launch pad, as seen in footage shared by NASASpaceFlight.

SpaceX Slaps Logo on Starship, Drags Prototype to Launchpad

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shown off the latest view of the space company's Starship spacecraft — and it's enormous.

Elon Musk’s New Photo Shows Staggering Size of SpaceX’s Starship

By Victor Tangermann

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, "Starship will be ready to fly next month," an exciting new update after years of delays and governmental red tape.

Elon Musk: “Starship Will Be Ready to Fly Next Month”

By Victor Tangermann

The Federal Aviation Administration has released its long-awaited environmental assessment into SpaceX's Starship launch program.

FAA Demands Changes Before SpaceX Can Launch Starship to Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter users spotted an interesting little piece of serving ware in a picture of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Indonesian president Joko Widodo having a chat.

Elon Musk Spotted Seemingly Using Starship Heat Shield as Snack Tray

By Victor Tangermann

The SpaceX Starship 24 might have a problem with its payload door, according to photos on Twitter. Elon Musk is sending more Starlink satellites to orbit.

SpaceX Starship Spotted With What Looks Like a Janky Payload Door

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Federal Aviation Association's environmental assessment of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft has been set back yet again, according to a notice.

The FAA Just Pushed Back SpaceX’s Starship Orbital Test Even Further

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Watchers Spot Starship Cargo Bay Doors at Launch Facility

SpaceX Watchers Spot Starship Cargo Bay Doors at Launch Facility

By Victor Tangermann

We finally have a date for SpaceX's long-awaited, first orbital test launch of its Starship spacecraft for "hopefully May."

Elon Musk Sets Tentative Date for First Starship Orbital Test Flight

By Victor Tangermann

Bad news, weed nerds — it looks like SpaceX's maiden voyage won't have a "420" joke after all.

SpaceX Fans Annoyed That Starship Orbital Launch Won’t Involve a Weed Joke

By Noor Al-Sibai

If Elon Musk is right, SpaceX is gonna become the most successful spaceflight company ever — and its competitors, including NASA, are terrified.

NASA Officials Reportedly Horrified That SpaceX’s Starship May Succeed

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that there would be a “slight delay” in the launch of the company’s experimental spacecraft.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is So Busy With Ukraine That It’ll Delay Starship

By Tony Ho Tran

China showed off a concept for a two-stage methane-liquid launch system that looks exactly like SpaceX's Starship spacecraft.

China’s New Rocket Concept Looks Suspiciously Like SpaceX’s Starship

By Victor Tangermann

While we anxiously await the first orbital test flight of SpaceX's Starship, CEO Elon Musk tried to keep our — and investors' — spirits up.

Elon Musk: Each Starship Launch Could Cost Just $1 Million

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has successfully stacked its orbital-class Starship prototype dubbed Ship 20 on top of its Super Heavy booster.

SpaceX Stacks Orbital-Class Starship on Booster, Hoists It With Mechazilla

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has hooked up the pair of massive "chopsticks" of its 460-foot "Mechazilla" tower to its latest Starship prototype dubbed Ship 20.

SpaceX Grabs Starship With Giant Robot Arms

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX blew up a test tank filled with liquid nitrogen on Wednesday. It’s unclear whether or not the explosion was intentional.

Tank Explodes at SpaceX’s Starship Testing Facility

By Tony Ho Tran

Eagle-eyed viewers watching Katy Perry's latest music video for her single “When I’m Gone” might have noticed an interesting cameo: SpaceX’s Starship.

New Katy Perry Music Video Features SpaceX Starships

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX has tested out its massive "chopstick" tower, a structure designed to guide its Starship and Super Heavy booster during launches and landings.

SpaceX Tests Giant “Chopsticks” For Catching Starship as It Lands

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared a video on Twitter of the giant Starship and its steering engines, a sign production may be back on track.

Elon Musk Shares Video of Starship Steering Its Mighty Engines

By Lonnie Lee Hood

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seems to have admitted that he's not positive his company's forthcoming Starship is going to work.

Elon Musk Admits That He’s Not Sure Starship Will Even Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed on Twitter today that SpaceX has begun the "construction of Starship orbital launch pad" at Cape Canaveral.

SpaceX Starts Constructing Starship’s Orbital Launch Pad at Cape Canaveral

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists are really starting to get fired up about the idea of SpaceX's Starship, a massive spacecraft with big promises.

NASA Scientists: SpaceX Starship “Revolutionary” for Exploring Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

A newly surfaced video shows the astonishingly roomy interior of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft prototype, as spotted by SpaceExplored.

Leaked Video Appears to Shows Interior of SpaceX’s Starship

By Victor Tangermann

Animator and SpaceX enthusiast Corey Bass has rendered an amazingly photorealistic sequence of a Starship and Super Heavy booster launching to space.

Gorgeous New Animation Shows Starship Going Orbital

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk made an eyebrow raising omission on Wednesday and implied that the first orbital Starship may very well explode on the launchpad.

Elon Musk Concedes That First Orbital Starship Launch May Explode

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX’s Orbital Starship Prototype Just Fired Up All Its Engines

SpaceX’s Orbital Starship Prototype Just Fired Up All Its Engines

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is sending thousands of tons of rocket propellant to its facilities, signaling that the company's orbital test launch could happen soon.

SpaceX Loading Huge Amount of Rocket Fuel at Starship Launch Site

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientist and software developer Casey Handmer argues NASA isn't ready for Starship has to offer and needs to make systematic changes to accomodate it.

NASA Employee Says SpaceX’s Starship Is About to Change Everything

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has flexed the "Chopsticks" arm of its massive Starship-catching tower for the first time earlier this morning at the company's Texas facilities.

SpaceX Flexes Giant Starship-Catching “Chopsticks” for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's orbital Starship prototype experienced a bit of a mishap during a test: the pressure caused several of the heat shields to violently pop off.

Tiles Fly Off SpaceX Starship Prototype During Testing

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's much bigger spacecraft Starship may also eventually be destined to launch tourists in the coming years, a big upgrade for future space tourists.

SpaceX Says It May Build Starships Exclusively for Space Tourism

By Victor Tangermann

Two adjacent Raptor engines recently installed on SpaceX's Super Heavy booster prototype on Wednesday were numbered "RB4" and "RB20" — the weed number 420.

SpaceX Installs Rocket Engines on Starship Booster to Spell “420”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is hoisting its first flightworthy Super Heavy booster prototype onto its orbital launch pad at the company's testing facilities in South Texas.

SpaceX Lifts Massive Starship Booster Onto Launchpad

By Victor Tangermann

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company will attempt something very different to recover its massive Super Heavy booster.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Catch Starship Booster With Giant “Robot Chopsticks”

By Victor Tangermann

A judge has awarded Blue Origin a "stay" after the Jeff Bezos-led space company sued NASA over losing the HLS contract to SpaceX.

Blue Origin Lawsuit Could Be Massive Setback to Starship Development

By Victor Tangermann

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, it will take about eight Starship and Super Heavy booster launches to fill up one lunar variant for a trip to the Moon.

Elon Musk Says It Could Take Eight Starship Launches to Fuel Up a Single Moon Trip

By Victor Tangermann

A new render by SpaceX enthusiast Erc X on Twitter shows the two giant stainless-steel Starship spacecraft meeting in space for a refueling session.

Elon Musk-approved Render Shows Two Starships, uh, Exchanging Fluids

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Says It’s a “Total Coincidence” That Starship Stack Spells “420”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has finally stacked a Starship spacecraft prototype on top of a Super Heavy booster for the very first time, a 475-foot tower of rockets.

SpaceX Just Mounted Starship on Top of the Super Heavy Booster

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is getting closer and closer to launching its first massive Starship prototype into orbit.

SpaceX Just Rolled Out Its Skyscraper-Sized Super Heavy Starship Booster

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX constructed a Starship launch tower before completing an environemtnal assessment, so the Federal Aviation Administration might say to take it down.

The FAA May Force SpaceX to Tear Down Its Starship Launch Tower

By Dan Robitzski

In a Wednesday tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that a Starship "itself" could serve as the "structure for a new giant telescope."

Elon Musk Suggests Turning a Starship Into a Giant Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX head Elon Musk revealed today that he likes to go on social media to check in on the progress his company is making on Starship.

Elon Musk Says He Goes on Twitter to Check on Starship’s Progress

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says the company hopes to launch its first orbital Starship flight some time in July, but several challenges remain.

SpaceX President Says Orbital Starship Launch Is “Shooting for July”

By Dan Robitzski

According to a recent tweet by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company's first prototype of its Starship booster Super Heavy is "almost done."

Elon Musk: First SpaceX Starship Booster Prototype “Almost Done”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has made big progress towards building its first flightworthy prototype of its Starship booster called Super Heavy.

Elon Musk Shares New Pic of Giant Starship Rocket Booster

By Victor Tangermann

Despite last last minute warnings from the FAA, SpaceX went ahead and launched its first high-altitude Starship prototype in December.

Report: SpaceX Ignored FAA Warnings Before Massive Starship Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

Though it didn't mention Starship by name, the Air Force says it set aside almost $50 million in tech development related to the spacecraft.

The Air Force Seems to Be Investing Heavily in SpaceX’s Starship

By Dan Robitzski

Pictures taken near SpaceX's testing facilities show the construction of what appears to be the company's first flightworthy Super Heavy booster prototype.

SpaceX Appears to Be Assembling Its Orbital Starship Booster

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has released glorious new footage of its fifth high-altitude test flight of its Mars-bound rocket Starship on May 5.

SpaceX Releases Epic Footage From Latest Starship Launch

By Victor Tangermann

In a document filed with the FCC, SpaceX has outlined its plans for the first orbital test flight of its Starship platform.

SpaceX Reveals Plans for First Orbital Starship Test Flight

By Victor Tangermann

During an announcement, a SpaceX engineer told viewers to "stay tuned for additional [Starship] test flights in the days ahead," as spotted by Teslarati.

SpaceX’s Starship May Fly Again “In the Days Ahead”

By Victor Tangermann