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Starship was scheduled to get off the ground Aug. 24 at SpaceX's Starbase headquarters near the U.S.-Mexico border before the attempt was called off. SpaceX's website indicates the company is working ...

Starship, which stands 403 feet tall when fully stacked, is regarded as the world's largest rocket. The spacecraft is due in the years ahead to help ferry NASA astronauts to the lunar surface and also ...

SpaceX fired six Raptor engines on the company’s next Starship rocket Monday, clearing a major hurdle on the path to launch later this month on a high-stakes test flight to get the private rocket ...

SpaceX’s next Starship rocket exploded during a ground test in South Texas late Wednesday, dealing another blow to a program already struggling to overcome three consecutive failures in recent months.