so they're not exposed to as much heat upon reentry. These flaps are designed to eventually help Starship fly back and touch down on land, making it reusable. But SpaceX has not yet recovered a ...

SpaceX completed a test flight of its Starship rocket for the first time on Thursday. The fourth Starship test flight completed new milestones as SpaceX continues to advance development of the ...

SpaceX has changed humanity's relationship ... but it was more of an unguided crash. Starship was lost during reentry while attempting to splash down in the Indian Ocean. In the fourth test ...

Some recent spaceflight spectacles offer hints about what you might see if Kosmos 482 happens to fall through the sky above ...

"Loss of engines and attitude control on SpaceX's Starship Flight 8 ... survive the extreme heat during reentry, and land in one piece appears to be a far more difficult exercise.

India's POEM-4 experiment module burned up and fell into the Indian Ocean to avoid becoming space debris. An Indian experiment module fell out of space and crashed into the Indian Ocean in recent days ...

The grand plan for Starship, Space X's interplanetary spaceship ... making it a more robust material for the heat it would encounter during reentry. While carbon fiber has a steady-state operating ...

Elon Musk's mammoth new rocket system has returned to Earth in a groundbreaking fourth test flight that culminated in a first-ever soft ocean landing for the Starship vehicle. The aim was to get ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has announced completion of the Final Tiered Environmental Assessment (EA) of SpaceX's proposal to dramatically increase the number of rocket launches and landings ...

a private European reentry capsule and a satellite for the weather-forecasting outfit Tomorrow Companies Inc. SpaceX highlighted the spaceflight tripleheader in a Tuesday (April 22) post on X ...

SpaceX has changed humanity's relationship ... but it was more of an unguided crash. Starship was lost during reentry while attempting to splash down in the Indian Ocean. In the fourth test ...