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2026 is a big year for SpaceX's Starship, the biggest and most ambitious rocket ever built. The third version of the still-in-development launch vehicle will debut soon (maybe), which will be the ...

Following a successful year for Starship in 2024, SpaceX has endured a series of relative disappointments for the world's largest rocket in 2025. These failures followed on the heels of a year of ...

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket completed its 10th test flight Tuesday night in its most successful blast off yet, following a slew of setbacks and past tests that ended with the spacecraft ...

SpaceX’s Starship rocket on Tuesday deployed its first batch of mock Starlink satellites in space and tested new heat shield tiles on its plunge through Earth’s atmosphere, clinching development ...

SpaceX has unveiled a radical redesign of its Starship rocket after several failed flight attempts of the Mars-bound rocket. Elon Musk’s space company announced on Wednesday that it will remove one ...

SpaceX is set to launch the 10th test flight of its Starship rocket on Sunday — after its last three launches ended with the spacecraft exploding in the air. The 400-foot-tall Starship rocket is ...

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 ...