Therefore, the flight of the Starship, which ended with an unplanned splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, is highly significant for the further development of rocket technologies. On Tuesday ...

Explore SpaceX’s powerful Starship and its mission to reach Mars and beyond. ExtremeTech breaks down its design, goals, and ...

SpaceX has now launched eight full-scale test flights of Starship, with a Super Heavy booster and Starship's upper stage ...

The splashdown comes four days after the Fram2 crew were propelled to orbit on the Dragon with assistance from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which blasted off at 9:46 p.m. EDT Monday from NASA's ...

Both times, the upper stage was supposed to make a soft splashdown off the coast of Western Australia about an hour after liftoff. Starship is a fully-reusable launch vehicle, meaning that both ...

On both missions, the upper stage — which SpaceX calls Starship, or simply Ship — was supposed to make a soft splashdown off the coast of Western Australia about 65 minutes after liftoff.

This exercise, known as Underway Recovery Test 12, is essential to ensure that the splashdown and recovery of the Artemis II crew is carried out smoothly after the astronauts' journey of more than ...

While Starship itself flew all the way to its intended splashdown in the Indian Ocean, SpaceX aborted the booster catch, diverting the first stage to an ocean splashdown. Starship was sporting ...