Musk plans to launch actual Starlinks on Starships before moving on to other satellites and, eventually, crews. It was the seventh test flight for the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket.

16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship booster returns to the launch pad during a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ...

The launch however was not without some success. Before the ship loss, the company successfully demonstrated how its massive mechanical arms dubbed “chopsticks” caught the rocket booster at ...

UK Approves First Vertical Rocket Launch Following the granting of the licence, German company RFA's 30 metre tall rocket has permission to take satellites into orbit.

LONDON -Britain gave the green light to Rocket Factory Augsburg to launch satellites from a site in northern Scotland on Jan 16, potentially paving the way for regular commercial space missions ...

The descending booster hovered over the launch pad before being gripped by a pair of mechanical arms dubbed chopsticks. The 400-foot (123-meter) rocket thundered away in late afternoon from Boca ...

The rocket's first attempt to launch on Monday was scrubbed around 3 a.m. ET because ice had accumulated on a propellant line. On Thursday, the company cited no issues ahead of launch. Bezos ...

London: The first vertical launch of a rocket into orbit from European soil could take place from the UK's most northerly point this year after a German company won approval for spaceflight ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...