SpaceX Starship

A record 223 orbital-class rockets lifted off last year, a 20% hike over 2022.

NASA believes it can leverage commercial service industries for deep-space exploration.

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Major events in aerospace and defense during 2023.

From new fighters to launchers, airline production ramps to air taxi certifications, 2024 will be a busy year.

Major technical risks were retired by the performance of SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket.

Launch of the second integrated flight test of SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy vehicle was rescheduled for Nov. 18.

SpaceX is targeting launch of its second Starship-SuperHeavy vehicle on Nov. 17 from Boca Chica Beach, Texas.

It is no surprise that Starship development is moving faster than the regulatory process.

The SLC-40 upgrade has been spurred by SpaceX’s plans to launch the Starship Super Heavy from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B, but NASA had concerns.

Following a short-lived debut flight on April 20, an upgraded Starship-Super Heavy vehicle is being prepared for launch.

Team wants data on S4 dynamics in simulated lunar space.

NASA is working with at least six companies interested in operating orbital outposts.

SpaceX says it has completed 57 corrective actions required by the FAA prior to a second flight test of the Starship Super Heavy launch system.

SpaceX has been ordered to implement 63 corrective actions to resume flight testing of its Starship Super Heavy launch system following a debut liftoff mishap.

SpaceX has hot fired the engines of its next Super Heavy booster as it prepared for a second flight test of an integrated Starship-Super Heavy vehicle.

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.