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Home » Space » SpaceX Starship Launch is Good but No Deployment of Starlink Dummy Satellites and Booster was Lost There was a good launch, good separation, and a good insertion. All 6 engines were reignited on Starship. They got through the second stage burn. They could not deploy the…

PUBLISHED : 28 May 2025 at 07:45 The SpaceX Starship rocket stands on the launchpad ahead of its scheduled launch from the SpaceX Starbase SOUTH PADRE ISLAND (UNITED STATES) - SpaceX's Starship megarocket, the linchpin of founder Elon Musk's ambitions to colonize Mars, blasted off on its latest test mission…

Update May 27, 8:42 p.m. EDT (0042 GMT): SpaceX launched Flight Test 9 of its Super Heavy Starship rocket at 7:37 p.m. EDT (2337 GMT; 6:37 p.m. local time in Starbase, Texas). The Super Heavy booster successfully separated from the Ship upper stage, but was lost above the Gulf. The…

A SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy rocket stands stacked at Pad A at Starbase, Texas, ahead of the Starship Flight 9 mission. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is gearing up for a critical flight test for its Starship program. Launch teams are preparing to send the world’s largest rocket on its ninth test flight…

Elon Musk looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 21, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Elon Musk-owned social media platform X experienced a brief outage on Saturday morning, with tens…

May 23 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched another batch of 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low-Earth orbit on Friday from California. The Falcon 9 flight was delayed from Thursday night. No reason was given for the scrubbing. The rocket lifted off 3:32 p.m. PDT from Vandenberg Space Force Base's Pad…

Liftoff of Starship/Super Heavy on Flight 8. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — The failure of SpaceX’s Starship on its most recent test flight had a different root cause than the previous failure, despite happening at about the same time. SpaceX released details May 23 about the cause of the Flight 8…

SpaceX’s Starship is set to launch as soon as Tuesday, May 27, after receiving the go-ahead from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this week.  This will be the ninth test flight for this heavy-lift rocket, a key part of SpaceX’s mission to eventually send humans to Mars and a critical…

SpaceX Falcon 9 booster 1075 touches down on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love you,’ during the Starlink 11-16 mission. This marked the 450th landing of a Falcon booster to date. Image: SpaceX via broadcast Update May 23, 7 p.m. EDT: SpaceX landed its first stage booster on the…

SpaceX's Starship/Super Heavy lifts off on the Flight 8 test flight March 6. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration has given final approval to SpaceX for the next Starship launch, now scheduled for no earlier than next week. The FAA announced May 22 that it approved the return…