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SpaceX's Texas test pad experienced an unexpected explosion, flames, while testing a Starship rocket booster prototype
SpaceX was testing a rocket booster in south Texas on Monday when it unexpectedly spewed flames, re…
Lloyd Lee,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX's Texas expansion plans hit by a fourth FAA delay over environmental concerns
The FAA expects to release their SpaceX Starbase environmental review on May 31 after pushing back …
Jyoti Mann
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Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch its Starship mega-rocket to orbit for the first time this year
SpaceX's Starship rocket is stacked atop its 23-story Super Heavy booster at the company's Boca Chi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch Elon Musk share a live update on SpaceX's Starship megarocket Thursday night
Musk founded SpaceX with the dream of sending humans to Mars. Starship is the rocket he's counting …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX offered $150,000 for a waterfront home next to its launch facilities, but its owner says that's one-third of the price of similar properties: report
Boca Chica residents told NBC News they felt pressure to accept SpaceX's offers because they'd been…
Kate Duffy
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SpaceX might launch its first Starship into orbit in January next year, says Elon Musk
The company is targeting January or February for its first Starship orbital launch attempt, Spac…
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SpaceX may have purchased 2 oil rigs off the coast of Texas that could be turned into 'floating' Starship launchpads
Elon Musk has tweeted about floating 'spaceports' for SpaceX before, and it looks like the company …
Annabelle Williams
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Watch SpaceX try launching a new Starship rocket 6 miles above Texas on Tuesday
A full-scale, 16-story Starship prototype called SN9 may finally launch and land, after Elon Musk q…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The FAA released SpaceX's rough plan to fly Starship rockets to orbit from Texas, and the agency wants public input on it
Before Elon Musk and SpaceX rocket Starship-Super Heavy to orbit from Boca Chica, the FAA needs the…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk's SpaceX could be ordered to take down its huge Starship launch tower in Boca Chica, the FAA has warned
The FAA said it had yet to complete an environmental review of the Texas launch site, meaning Space…
Grace Dean,Kate Duffy
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SpaceX just launched - and exploded - an experimental Starship rocket in Texas. The test nevertheless propels Elon Musk's vision of interplanetary travel closer to reality.
Starship is designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, slash the cost of reaching space thousandfol…
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX may launch a winged Starship rocket prototype more than 40,000 feet above Texas this afternoon
Several YouTube broadcasters are on the ground in Boca Chica, Texas, to stream live video of SpaceX…
Dave Mosher
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New FAA documents reveal SpaceX's latest plans for launching Starship prototypes on suborbital flights from South Texas — and potential hurdles to orbit
SpaceX hopes to eventually fly Starships to orbit from Boca Chica, Texas, but it can't do so withou…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX threatened with arrests as local authorities in Texas warn it may have committed a crime by using private security guards to block public roads
Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz accused SpaceX of intentionally ignoring warnings about…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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SpaceX is causing a rift between Brownsville residents. Some say it's shattering the lives of locals but others are welcoming the economic boom it's created.
Brownsville residents are excited for Elon Musk to pump money into the city, but some are concerned…
Kate Duffy
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SpaceX doubled down on clearing out the village where it's building a rocket resort by telling residents 'it's not safe' to live there — and some see it as a threat
For Boca Chica residents who rejected SpaceX, the rocket company may "pursue alternative approaches…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk's SpaceX acts 'like they already own everything' as the company reportedly buys up homes in a Texas village, preventing access to public roads and beaches
One SpaceX official reportedly told homeowners the company would pursue a "different route" if they…
Connor Perrett
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Watch SpaceX launch its newest Starship prototype. The last 4 exploded.
Every high-flying Starship so far has exploded. Still, NASA plans to help SpaceX turn the launch sy…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX's new Starship rocket prototype exploded at the end of a test flight yet again, sending debris flying
SN11 is the fourth Starship prototype that hasn't launched and landed completely smoothly. SpaceX s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin Woodward
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SpaceX just launched a full-size Starship rocket prototype hundreds of feet above Texas
Before SpaceX can fly people to the moon or Mars with its new Starship-Super Heavy rocket, the comp…