SpaceX is making progress toward the first orbital launch of its Starship launch vehicle, as the company recently conducted a successful static fire test. SpaceX took to its Twitter account to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor for NASA’s Space ...

SpaceX has cleared an important hurdle that brings it closer to the Starship system's first orbital flight test. The company has successfully completed a static fire test of the Super Heavy's current ...

SpaceX has completed the latest test of a prototype of its Starship rocket, intended to carry astronauts to the moon and even eventually to Mars. The static fire test, conducted on Sunday August 24, ...

All but two of the rocket's 33 Raptor engines were engaged during the critical test, which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says is still enough for an orbital launch. Reading time 3 minutes SpaceX performed the ...

NASA said the Green Run static-fire test Jan. 16 was terminated when the hydraulic system for one of four engines hit a limit intended to be conservative in order to protect the core stage. Credit: ...