SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 suffered another dramatic failure - but why? Just like Flight 7, the upper stage exploded in space, scattering debris over the Bahamas. What went wrong this time, and ...

SpaceX's Unmanned Starship SN8 Explodes on Impact Near Landing Pad During Flight Test Earlier this week, Elon Musk predicted that the Starship SN8 had a "1/3 chance of completing all mission ...

Starship SN8 arrives at the launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas. NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal The newest prototype of SpaceX’s moon-landing and Mars-colonizing spaceship, Starship, is expected ...

SpaceX’s Starship prototype was just destroyed during a test flight, but the flight itself was still deemed a success. In fact, the SN8 prototype’s test flight out of the SpaceX Boca Chica ...

SpaceX has a webcast scheduled to go live at 11 a.m. EST (1600 GMT) on Tuesday for a "high-altitude flight test" of its Starship SN8 vehicle. You can watch it here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX ...

Good Starship SN8 static fire! Aiming for first 15km / ~50k ft altitude flight next week. Goals are to test 3 engine ascent, body flaps, transition from main to header tanks & landing flip.

And SN8 ("Serial No. 8") is indeed gearing up for a flight — a test that will take it to a target altitude of 9 miles (15 kilometers), far higher than any other Starship prototype has gone.