The seventh test of SpaceX’s huge Starship ended with another explosion. That’s fine. In fact, it’s a good thing.

SpaceX plans to launch the seventh full-scale test flight of its massive Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket Thursday ...

A full-scale model of the Mark 1 lander dominates ... New Glenn, however, is not the biggest rocket. NASA’s Space Launch System and SpaceX’s Starship are both taller and more powerful.

Credit: NASA Since the recent presidential election ... been particularly intense regarding the future of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew vehicle. Some pundits have called ...

next to Elon Musk's SpaceX's Starship and NASA's new moon rocket, the Space Launch System. These heavy-lift vehicles have roughly the size and heft of NASA's Saturn V — the rocket that launched ...

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth.

which would carry them to orbit and rendezvous with yet another rocket for return to Earth, where yet another lander would return the samples to NASA and the European Space Agency for study.

At its base are 33 Raptor engines, which together produce 16.7 million pounds of thrust — about double the 8.8 million pounds of thrust of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, which launched for the ...

Blue Origin successfully launched the rocket after an attempt earlier in the week was scrubbed. The flight is a crucial test ...

The seven Starship launches since 2023 easily beat the poky pace of the SLS, and NASA has enough faith in the rocket that it tapped the upper stage of the Starship to serve as the Human Landing ...