SpaceX made multiple changes in the wake of a January Starship failure, only to suffer a second straight vehicle breakup Thursday.

SpaceX is using Raptor 2 engines on today’s mission ... It “eliminates the large and heavy engine heat shields, which means that when we move from the Raptor 2 to the Raptor 3 engines on ...

SpaceX's Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas and dealing another setback to Elon Musk's rocket program after a failure under ...

Thirty-three Raptor engines propelled ... performance of Starship Block 2’s heat shield before committing to an attempt to recover the ship intact (like SpaceX is already doing with the Super ...

Engineers had also removed 2,100 heat shield tiles ... a spokesperson for SpaceX, said during the live broadcast of the launch. The launch system, consisting of 39 Raptor engines, provided the ...

After SpaceX’s Starship megarocket exploded during ... between the bottom of the liquid oxygen tank and the rear heat shield. The company said it had made several upgrades to the upper stage ...

SpaceX launched its huge Starship rocket ... the in-space restart of one of the rocket's Raptor engines and tests of new heat shield materials and components needed for the eventual pad capture ...