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A SpaceX Starlink internet satellite fell from space in a blaze of glory overnight, lighting up the Midwest U.S. sky with a brilliant fireball. Stargazers across parts of Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois witnessed the Starlink satellite's fiery demise as it burned up in Earth's atmosphere late Tuesday (Jan. 28) and…

A artist’s rendering of the SpainSat New Generation 1 satellite. Graphic: Airbus Defense and Space SpaceX launched a secure communications satellite on behalf of Hisdesat, a Spanish communications company, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Wednesday night. The SpainSat New Generation 1 (SNG 1) satellite is supported by the European Space…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 21 of its Starlink satellites at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on January 10. A new launch went off on Monday afternoon after a slight delay. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo Jan. 27 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched its next…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 11-6 mission on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. Image: SpaceX. Update 10 a.m. EST (1500 UTC): SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship. SpaceX launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites from California during…

SpaceX conducted the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, but the mission hit a setback as the company lost contact with the upper stage, which is now drifting in space. This poses a challenge to Elon Musk's ambitious goal of colonising Mars. The live webcast of the…

The Starship's seventh test flight ended in an explosion when the vehicle's upper stage "experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn" over the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX chief Elon Musk posted a video of the event, with debris streaking across and lighting up the sky. During the company's webcast,…

SpaceX launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship mega rocket on its seventh test flight Thursday, successfully "catching" the first stage booster back at its firing stand but losing its new-generation Starship upper stage spacecraft, which apparently broke up as it was reaching space. Falling debris from the destroyed Starship briefly delayed…

It was a one-step-forward, one-step-back kind of day for SpaceX. The Mechazilla tower once again caught the incoming Starship booster in dramatic fashion, but the upper stage was lost due to an anomaly during ascent. Starship lifted off from the Boca Chica launch mount at 5:37 p.m. ET, soaring into…

SpaceX has made an incredible catch of its Super Heavy Booster during the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket, but has lost the vehicle. Launched at 5:37 p.m. ET today, Thursday January 16, from SpaceX’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas, this is only the second time that the enormous…

Home » Space » SpaceX Starship Flight 7 Launched, BOOSTER CAUGHT, Upper Stage Lost The seventh fully integrated test flight of Starship with its Super Heavy booster launched. the Starship booster is a block 2 version with a lot of improvements. Go for booster return AND IT WAS CAUGHT. Telemetry…