The rocket company’s effort to demonstrate payload deployment, land its upper stage and potentially achieve spaceship-to-spaceship fuel transfer this year had an inauspicious start when the Starship ...

During his second inauguration speech, President Donald Trump endorsed a Mars mission as a part of America’s push into new ...

Robert A. Kopack, University of South Carolina If there is a leader in the aerospace industry, SpaceX is it. The company’s Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon spacecrafts are the current go-to vehicles to ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Ship 33 successfully ignited its six engines following stage separation and continued to space. However, shortly after ...

The first launch of an upgraded version of Starship’s upper stage ends with a loss of comms 91 miles up. Elon Musk says ...

That puts it into competition with SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, but not that company’s far larger, still in-development Starship ...

After weeks of preparation, SpaceX is now preparing for the seventh flight test of the Starship vehicle on Monday afternoon. In a first, the Starship will attempt a Starlink payload deployment ...

(Update: Blue Origin has moved the first flight of New Glenn to no earlier than 1 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 13. SpaceX has confirmed Flight 7 will be no earlier than Monday, Jan. 13 from Boca Chica, Texas.

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Meanwhile, launching from Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX is currently seeking to prefect its Starship design to become its next generation rocket and spacecraft.