Starship's eighth flight ... added. During operational missions, SpaceX plans to bring both Super Heavy and Ship back to Starbase for launch-tower catches. This strategy will reduce the time between ...

The Starship mission team is standing down for now, scrubbing its eighth test flight of the most powerful launch system ever built about six weeks after an explosive failure over populated islands.

Video showed the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built spinning out of control in space, a repeat of an unsuccessful test flight in January that led to debris falling over the Caribbean.

This is not the first time this has happened with the rocket, CNN reported. The loss of signal also happened at roughly the same point during the seventh flight in January. Starship exploded over ...

including adjusting the rocket’s “operating thrust target,” or how much power the engines generate during flight. More than $13 billion. That’s how much SpaceX has earned in contracts from ...

An issue during the countdown ... the propellant temperatures and thrust levels of the engines to avoid a repeat of the leaks. For the rocket on this flight, SpaceX also added more vents to ...

What went wrong during the 7th flight? The first part of the launch ... SpaceX also altered the propellant temperatures and thrust levels of the engines to avoid a repeat of the leaks. For the rocket ...

Huot said the company opted to wait to stack the rocket system ... s “operating thrust target” — or how much power SpaceX aims for the engines to generate during flight.

This strategy will reduce the time between launches for the fully reusable rocket ... materials for protecting Starship during reentry," SpaceX wrote in a Flight 8 mission description.