SpaceX Completes Full-Duration 33-Engine Super Heavy Static Fire for Flight 15
SpaceX completed a full-duration 33-engine Super Heavy static fire Sunday, clearing a major booster test ahead of Flight 15's planned double-catch attempt.
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SpaceX completed a full-duration 33-engine Super Heavy static fire Sunday, clearing a major booster test ahead of Flight 15's planned double-catch attempt.
Elon Musk says Flight 15 is hopefully four to six weeks away, with SpaceX planning to catch both Super Heavy and Starship before attempting a reflight on Flight 16.
Musk's new target works out to roughly 10,000 flights a year—and puts rapid reuse, launch sites, airspace and licensing at the center of SpaceX's next four years.
Ship 40 survived Flight 13, weeks of rough water and a 500-mile recovery push. SpaceX has now reached calmer water off Christmas Island—but the trip home is far from over.
Louisiana's reported Pecan Island deal would give Starship an enormous new Gulf Coast launch site, but SpaceX has not announced final terms yet.
SpaceX turned a bruising launch week into a milestone mission as Starship completed a demanding sequence from payload deployment through splashdown.
Starship's twelfth flight test is set to introduce the next-generation V3 vehicle stack, upgraded Raptor 3 engines, and the newly built Pad 2 at Starbase. Here is everything we know about the most loaded test flight SpaceX has ever attempted.