Super Heavy

SpaceX’s orbital Florida Starship yard suffers damage after catching fire

Documented on Twitch and covered by several local reporters and photographers, an accident at SpaceX's Florida Starship campus led to…

SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy rocket needs a launch pad and work is already starting

According to SpaceX job posts published early this month, the company has already begun the process of looking for the…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says major Starship engine bug is fixed as Raptor testing continues

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed the latest official photo of the company's Raptor engine in action and indicated that…

SpaceX’s orbital Starship gains a nose as East Coast prototype makes progress

On May 20th, SpaceX technicians successfully stacked a nosecone on top of the company's Boca Chica orbital Starship prototype. Simultaneously,…

SpaceX’s Starship, Starhopper prototypes continue slow and steady progress

The last few weeks of SpaceX's work on Starship and Starhopper prototypes has been marked by less visible progress relative…

SpaceX goes all-in on steel Starship, scraps expensive carbon fiber BFR tooling

In a wholly unforeseen turn of events, SpaceX has taken the extraordinary step of permanently scrapping both its Port of…

SpaceX will build and launch Starship/Super Heavy in Texas and Florida, says Musk

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the company has plans to both build and launch BFR's Starship upper stages and…

SpaceX’s first orbital Starship begins assembly as steel heat shield passes tests

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the company's South Texas workforce has already begun to fabricate the first orbital-class Starship…

SpaceX job posts confirm Starship’s Super Heavy booster will be built in Texas

A duo of SpaceX job postings at the company's South Texas facilities have confirmed that both Starship and Super Heavy "flight…

SpaceX’s first redesigned Raptor static fire paves the way for Starship’s hop test debut

After years of development, multiple prototypes constructed, and more than 1200 seconds of cumulative static fire testing at durations longer…