SpaceX's latest Starship rocket test ended with the spacecraft's destruction despite a successful booster catch using 'chopsticks' at the pad. Communication with the spacecraft was lost 8 1/2 ...

The booster fired its engines to lower itself to a catch tower, where a pair of giant "chopstick" arms closed around its trunk and caught it. This technological feat is key to reaching SpaceX's ...

Hours after Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin nailed its first-ever orbital mission, SpaceX seized back the spotlight on Thursday as its latest test of Starship, its gargantuan next-generation megarocket ...

Relive SpaceX Starship’s seventh test flight as it happened and follow updates on its aftermath. SpaceX’s colossal Starship launch system lifted off on its seventh uncrewed test flight ...

A minute earlier, SpaceX used the launch tower’s giant mechanical arms to catch the returning booster, a feat achieved only once before. The descending booster hovered over the launch pad before ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at the pad. Elon Musk’s company said Starship ...

The maneuver was first successfully executed in October, but not November, when Super Heavy made a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico instead. Soon after the latest booster catch, however, ...

In a swift response that could rival scenes from a Hollywood blockbuster, Nyazura police apprehended two suspects involved in a violent armed robbery at Cavalla Farm just a day after the crime was ...

(KWTX) - A spokesperson for SpaceX confirmed to CNN that the Starship spacecraft was lost during their seventh test launch on Wednesday. “We can confirm that we did lose the ship,” SpaceX ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Five Massachusetts college students appeared in court Thursday, accused of plotting to lure a man to their ...

The rocket’s most recent test flight took place on November 20, 2024, and although SpaceX opted out of performing a booster catch, Starship performed nominally during its suborbital launch.

The Assumption University students were charged with conspiracy and kidnapping. Five Massachusetts college students accused of luring a man to their campus through a Tinder account as part of a ...