Elon Musk has just leaked new details about Starship Flight 6, and this mission could be the most important one yet. With changes to launch timelines, hardware upgrades, and performance expectations, ...

• SpaceX launched Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, on its sixth test flight from South Texas. The rocket made a safe landing and stayed intact Tuesday night as it splashed down in ...

Incidentally, Flight 6 saw the first actual payload carried by a Starship, though this consisted of a single banana that was held up on strings as a visual indicator for when the spacecraft went ...

The fifth integrated test flight of Starship launched on October 13, garnering international attention with SpaceX’s ambitious attempt to maneuver the 232-foot-tall (71-meter) Super Heavy back ...

As of press time, the Starship Flight 6 test is scheduled to launch at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT), or 4 p.m. CST from SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas.

The livestream for SpaceX's Starship Flight 6 will begin 30 minutes before the opening of the launch window, around 4:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT). SpaceX's official stream can be found through the ...

Flight 6 should move the company closer to that goal. SpaceX stripped several of Starship’s heat shield tiles in spots where “catch-enabling hardware” could later be added.

During Starship's fifth test flight in October, SpaceX successfully caught the Super Heavy booster with a giant pair of metal arms, nicknamed "chopsticks," that caught it before it reached the ground.

The sixth test flight of Starship—the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly—will launch no earlier than 5 p.m. EST on Monday, November 18, SpaceX said Wednesday.

The debris fell into the Indian Ocean away from inhabited areas. SpaceX was unable to conduct several tests it had planned during the flight, such as deploying simulators of the next-generation ...

Starship's first two flight tests of 2025 – on Jan. 16 and again on March 6 – ended in dramatic explosions that sent cascades of fiery debris streaking across the sky.

Read our full Starship Flight 6 launch story for the details, new photos and video. Just before sunset this evening (Nov. 19) on the outskirts of the southernmost town in Texas, ...