This was Starship’s eighth flight test and follows a failed flight in January. The spacecraft is essential to Elon Musk’s vision of eventually colonizing Mars.

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.

Satellite service Starlink doesn’t have the capabilities to be the FAA’s comms backbone. Trump officials may take a $2.4B contract from Verizon and give it to Musk’s company anyway.

He reportedly issued his directive as Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Musk is firing thousands of federal workers via DOGE. The move triggered conflict of interest concerns as Musk appears to be dismantling the federal system as his own company seeks to take over lucrative work amid an employee shortfall he is creating.

An appeals court rejected SpaceX’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the National Labor Relations Board that accused the company of illegally firing engineers critical of CEO Elon Musk.

SpaceX said it made several improvements to the spacecraft following the accident, and last week the Federal Aviation Administration cleared Starship once more for launch. Starships soar out of ...

It’s the second time this year that SpaceX experienced a mishap during a flight test of Starship resulting in debris raining down.

Multiple airports in Florida were temporarily placed under a ground stop after a massive SpaceX Starship rocket exploded in flight on Thursday night, according to the National Airspace System.