Watch SpaceX douse a steel plate with water and then blast Raptor engine fire into it. The private spaceflight company's ...

Watch SpaceX doused a steel plate with water and then blast Raptor engine fire into it. The private spaceflight company's ...

Elon Musk claimed that the Raptor 3 is the “best rocket engine ever”, a title based on its unprecedented combination of thrust, weight reduction, and extreme simplification. The Raptor ...

On its surface, the flight plan for SpaceX’s next Starship flight looks a lot like the last one. The rocket’s Super Heavy booster will again splash down in the Gulf of Mexico just offshore from SpaceX ...

For more than two years, SpaceX has been conducting tests of its massive Starship spacecraft from its Texas headquarters. And for more than two years, the vehicle/rocket combo – standing more than 400 ...

SpaceX has long marketed Starship as a fully and rapidly reusable rocket that’s designed to deliver thousands of pounds of cargo to Mars and make life multiplanetary. But reusability at scale means a ...