SpaceX

Manuel Mazzanti/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, has called “rapidly reusable, reliable rockets” the key to humans becoming a multiplanetary society. And when it comes to his company’s Falcon 9, SpaceX has shown that a rocket can do all those things. The Falcon 9 has now […]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — SpaceX announced it was canceling the 10th launch of the Starship moments before the flight was set to begin. “Standing down from today’s tenth flight of Starship to allow time to troubleshoot an issue with ground systems,” SpaceX said in a statement. Starship’s 10th flight test was scheduled to […]

CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP / Getty Images (NEW YORK) — SpaceX lost contact with its Starship rocket on reentry over the Indian Ocean, the company said Thursday, but the third test flight was still deemed a success as it advanced further than either previous test. The unmanned spaceship blasted off successfully from the company’s base […]