The famed 397-foot-tall (121 meter) Starship launched from the company’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday, March 06, 2025. (SpaceX) ...

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At this point, Starship is showing signs of going backward. After making steady progress, SpaceX has suffered a run of three in-flight failures and now a catastrophic explosion on the test stand. It ...

In the latest test, around 50 minutes after launch, SpaceX confirmed that Starship met its demise. At first, everything in the vehicle’s flight appeared to be going well.

SpaceX stacked the two stages for the first time in the summer of 2021 and launched the full stack in April 2023. That first test was followed by six more, not all of which improved on the last.

April 2023: First Full Stack After a lengthy delay of well over a year, SpaceX finally returned to the launch pad to kick off the first test of its Starship, including its Super Heavy booster, a ...