SpaceX Starship

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.

The successful demonstration positions SpaceX for a quick turnaround for Integrated Flight Test 5.

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.

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.

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

The company is hoping the upgraded Starship survives its return through the atmosphere.

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.

The Pentagon’s push to adopt more commercial communications systems is raising concerns with the DOD's largest provider of resilient communications,

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

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.

The company first wants to move projects from high risk to high reward.

SpaceX is looking to fly Starship again in early May.

Listen in as former Space Shuttle program manager Wayne Hale joins Aviation Week editors to unpack Starship's third flight test.

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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.

Satellite crowding and military conflict create new dangers in space.

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.

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

China cannot match America’s rate of space innovation.

When astronauts land on the Moon, will taikonauts be there to greet them?

The space agency is slowing Artemis missions to address crew safety challenges.

A record 223 orbital-class rockets lifted off last year, a 20% hike over 2022.

NASA believes it can leverage commercial service industries for deep-space exploration.

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