SpaceX Starship

By Thierry Dubois
Starship, currently in a test phase, is going to change the way space industry players see satellites.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX says it has been ready to launch the fifth Starship-Super Heavy Integrated Flight Test (IFT-5) since early August.
Commercial Space

By Robert Wall
The FAA has for now called off public hearings on SpaceX’s request to increase the pace of Starship-Super Heavy launch operations.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Plumbing and wiring were removed or incorporated into the new engine’s primary structure.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk plans to move the company’s headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Stoke Space has completed a critical first hot-fire test of its full flow staged combustion (FFSC) engine at its test site in Moses Lake, Washington.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The successful demonstration positions SpaceX for a quick turnaround for Integrated Flight Test 5.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
With 32 of its 33 Raptor engines firing, the Super Heavy booster lifted off from SpaceX’s Boca Chica Beach, Texas, spaceport at after a trouble-free countdown.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The FAA on June 4 cleared SpaceX to proceed with the fourth Integrated Flight Test of a Starship-Super Heavy launch system, with the launch targeted for June 6.
Space

By Irene Klotz
A high-profile, privately financed sortie around the Moon aboard a SpaceX Starship spacecraft has been canceled.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The company is hoping the upgraded Starship survives its return through the atmosphere.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX’s plan to launch its Starship-Super Heavy reusable Mars-class space transport from KSC will require a full environmental impact statement, the FAA said.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon’s push to adopt more commercial communications systems is raising concerns with the DOD's largest provider of resilient communications,
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Guy Norris
Starlab, which is designed to house a crew of four, is designed to reach initial operational capability with just one launch.
Space Symposium

By Garrett Reim
Max Space sees its inflatable structures as useful for building orbiting space stations in Earth orbit, but habitats in cislunar space, on the Moon and Mars.
Space Symposium

By Garrett Reim
The company first wants to move projects from high risk to high reward.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX is looking to fly Starship again in early May.
Space

By Irene Klotz, Guy Norris
Listen in as former Space Shuttle program manager Wayne Hale joins Aviation Week editors to unpack Starship's third flight test.
Check 6

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX's Starship completed a full-duration ascent burn and was able to run through a series of engineering demonstrations as it coasted above Earth.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Satellite crowding and military conflict create new dangers in space.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Pending clearance from the FAA, SpaceX said on March 6 that it could be ready for its third Starship/Super Heavy flight test from Boca Chica Beach, Texas, as early as March 14.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Three months after SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy’s second flight test ended in a mid-air explosion, the FAA closed its accident investigation.
Space

By Garrett Reim
China cannot match America’s rate of space innovation.
Space

By Irene Klotz
When astronauts land on the Moon, will taikonauts be there to greet them?
Space