SpaceX simulates lifting Starship with launch tower ‘arms’
SpaceX has taken Starbase's rocket-catching launch tower 'arms' to new heights during the latest series of proof tests. That process…
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SpaceX Starship ‘launch tower’ spreads its rocket-catching arms
Update: Shortly after publishing, SpaceX began a much more ambitious series of tests with the Starship launch tower's two main…
2 years ago
SpaceX Starship prototype completes fourth static fire
In its true last act of the year, SpaceX successfully fired up its first orbital-class Starship for the fourth time…
2 years ago
SpaceX’s first orbital Starship launch runs into more FAA delays
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it's at least two months behind schedule on an environmental review that must…
2 years ago
NASA Artemis delegation tours SpaceX’s Starship factory and launch pad
Thanks to the failure of Blue Origin's NASA Human Landing System (HLS) lawsuit, SpaceX and the space agency were finally…
2 years ago
SpaceX begins testing first flightworthy Super Heavy booster
More than three months after the building-sized Starship booster's latest return to Starbase's orbital launch site, SpaceX has finally begun…
2 years ago
SpaceX to replicate Starbase, build multiple Starship launch pads in Florida
Less than two weeks after CEO Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX has restarted construction of a Starship launch site at…
2 years ago
SpaceX rolls Super Heavy booster to orbital launch mount
For the third time in four months, SpaceX has rolled the first potentially flightworthy Super Heavy booster towards Starbase's orbital…
2 years ago
SpaceX stacking two Starships at once for the first time in ten months
As of late November, SpaceX has begun stacking two Starship prototypes simultaneously for the first time in ten months. Known…
2 years ago
SpaceX tests Starship and Frankenstein ‘test tank’ simultaneously
After another few weeks of downtime, SpaceX has simultaneously tested the first orbital-class Starship prototype and a Frankenstein-esque 'test tank'…
2 years ago
SpaceX begins filling Starship’s orbital launch site with rocket propellant
Less than a year after tank farm assembly began in South Texas, SpaceX has begun the painstaking process of filling…
2 years ago
SpaceX begins assembling Starbase’s biggest manufacturing building yet
It might not look like much today but SpaceX has begun assembling what is set to become Starbase's largest Starship…
2 years ago
SpaceX preparing Super Heavy, Starbase for booster’s next steps
Amid a flurry of deliveries and work on several new Starship boosters, SpaceX is preparing the first truly finished Super…
3 years ago
SpaceX begins installing ‘Mechazilla’ arms designed to catch Starship rockets
After a busy few weeks spent attaching Mechazilla's two rocket-catching arms to a carriage-like backbone, SpaceX has begun the process…
3 years ago
SpaceX rolls second-to-last ‘cryoshell’ to Starbase’s orbital tank farm
In the last two days, SpaceX has transported a giant mystery tank and the second-to-last 'cryoshell' to Starbase's orbital tank…
3 years ago
SpaceX’s rocket-catching ‘Mechazilla’ arms are almost ready to join Starship launch tower
Update: SpaceX has now lifted, flipped, and staged all three components of Starbase's Mechazilla rocket-catcher, including two giant arms measuring…
3 years ago
SpaceX’s first orbital-class Starship ‘tank farm’ is almost finished
Roughly six months after the process began, SpaceX has installed the seventh and final custom-built propellant storage tank at Starbase's…
3 years ago