In preparation for its eighth Starship launch, SpaceX is finishing up preflight shakedowns for the megarocket's first stage, ...
This was made possible by a vented interstage added to Starship ahead of the second launch. For today’s launch, IFT-3, SpaceX planned a different trajectory for Starship. The new plan ...
However, data collected during those first flights helped SpaceX engineers get Starship ready for success down the road. Improvements made between IFT-1 and IFT-2 last year included the ...
SpaceX has conducted static fire tests for Starship’s two stages, moving closer to the next integrated flight test.
Dragon, which corresponds to the "Starship" part of Starship, is 20 feet (6.1 meters) tall ... but it would fail to live up to the high standards of IFT-5. While Starship itself flew all the ...
SpaceX performed a static fire of Booster 15 for the eighth flight of Starship.
More specifically, the company recently completed static test fires on both vessels tapped to fly on Starship's next integrated test flight (IFT-8). All 33 Raptor engines of SpaceX's 233-foot (71 ...