SpaceX Starship

Five years after Jeff Bezos began wooing NASA to buy Blue Origin lunar landing services, the U.S. space agency said “yes.”

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

The pacing item to return to flight may be the automated destruct safety system.

Aviation Week editors talk about the aftermath of the Starship test and the future of commercial and military space launches.

With five Super Heavy boosters and eight Starships in production, SpaceX ramps up flight test program.

U.S. Space Systems Command is closely watching SpaceX’s launch test of the fully reusable Starship/ Super Heavy launch vehicle, planned for April 20.

SpaceX will try again on April 20 to send a Starship spacecraft into a 90-min. flight test around the Earth.

SpaceX has turned the first launch attempt of its integrated Starship/Super Heavy vehicle into a wet dress rehearsal.

On the eve of the first integrated flight test of the Starship/Super Heavy, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says his most fervent wish is to not destroy the launchpad.

The FAA has issued a vehicle operator license to SpaceX for the first orbital flight test of its Starship/Super Heavy launch system.