SpaceX Starship

SpaceX has been cleared to develop Cape Canaveral SFS’ Space Launch Complex-37 for Starship-Super Heavy launch and landing operations.

The Eastern Range is working with NASA to be able to host SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy flights from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in early- to mid-2026.

SpaceX is investigating an accident that heavily damaged the Super Heavy booster being prepared for a flight test from Starbase, Texas, early next year.

NASA’s acting chief has called to reopen the Human Landing System competition, raising SpaceX’s ire.

SpaceX’s first Super Heavy Version 3 booster is expected to be rolled out to Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas, in “days to weeks, not weeks to months.”

SpaceX has yet to demonstrate critical pieces of its Starship HLS architecture, including in-space refueling in low Earth orbit.

America’s launch sites are undergoing massive transformations to support a new era in space.

Up to 25 Starship-Super Heavy launches are planned per year from Starbase.

Starlink deployments and orbital fueling demos are on tap for the Starship Version 3 flights that SpaceX will begin in 2026.

SpaceX’s 11th Starship-Super Heavy launch system completed a 65-min. suborbital flight test Oct. 13.

SpaceX is targeting Oct. 13 for the next Starship-Super Heavy flight test.

Launch service providers are promising higher flight cadences—again.

SpaceX is looking to fly the first of a new iteration of its Starship launch system late this year or early next year.

SpaceX sees its Falcon 9 launch cadence peaking as the company ramps up operations of its Starship launch vehicle, a company executive says.

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Generating some 16.5 million lb. of thrust, the 404-ft tall Starship-Super Heavy headed toward a suborbital trajectory for a planned 66-min. flight demonstration.

The Italian Space Agency signed an agreement with SpaceX to fly several science payloads on an upcoming Starship mission or missions to Mars.

SpaceX’s 10th flight test of a Starship-Super Heavy launch system remained on hold Aug. 25 following a scrub due to lightning concerns at the company’s Boca Chica Beach, Texas, spaceport.

SpaceX canceled plans for a flight test of its Starship-Super Heavy launch system Aug. 24 to troubleshoot a potential problem with ground systems.

SpaceX is aiming to resume Starship-Super Heavy flight tests as early as Aug. 24.

SpaceX expects its Starship launcher to break the company's previous rideshare launch record of 143 spacecraft when it begins flying such missions.

SpaceX plans another Starship flight test soon after a vehicle slated to perform that mission suffered an explosion in June.

An explosive ground test accident has claimed a fourth Starship vehicle.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Initial analysis points to a composite overwrapped pressure vessel containing nitrogen gas in Starship’s nosecone area as the possible cause of an explosion.