Qantas and Boeing are revising aircraft maintenance procedures after one of the carrier’s 787-9s flew from Melbourne to Los Angeles without having the covers of its engine static ports removed. All ...

SpaceX completed a Starship engine test at its Starbase facility recently, igniting all six of the vehicle's engines for a ...

SpaceX's COO, Gwynne Shotwell, has shared insights about Starship launches as far away as Flight 15.

On May 28, 2026, SpaceX pinned Super Heavy Booster 19 to the orbital launch mount at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, and lit all 33 of its Raptor 3 engines in a roughly 15-second static fire that, by ...

All but two of the rocket's 33 Raptor engines were engaged during the critical test, which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says is still enough for an orbital launch. Reading time 3 minutes SpaceX performed the ...

An explosion at the launch facility last month delayed the rocket's inaugural mission, but the company wants to see its heavy-lift vehicle fly soon. Reading time 3 minutes After recovering from an ...

SpaceX fired six Raptor engines on the company’s next Starship rocket Monday, clearing a major hurdle on the path to launch later this month on a high-stakes test flight to get the private rocket ...

Exhaust billows from a tethered static fire test of a Long March 10 first-stage test article at the LC-301 launch pad, Wenchang Space Launch Site, Hainan Island, China, Aug. 15, 2025. Credit: CMSEO ...

Initial Super Heavy V3 and Starbase Pad 2 activation campaign complete, wrapping up several days of testing that loaded cryogenic fuel and oxidizer on a V3 vehicle for the first time. While the ...