If tests show any heat shield erosion for Starship, SpaceX plans to add additional cooling systems to protect the spacecraft. "Transpiration cooling will be added wherever we see erosion of the ...

President Claudia Sheinbaum's lawsuit warning came after a June 18 explosion at Starbase lobbed debris across the Rio Grande ...

Now, with 2019 promising huge leaps in Starship’s development, Musk is showing off the company’s testing of the spacecraft’s heat shield, which is one of its most vital components.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday said that the company is working on making it easier to remove the heat shield tiles on its ambitious Starship launch vehicle. What Happened: “We're working on ...

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 ...

SpaceX's ninth Starship test flight ends in failure after a ... The mission aimed to deploy eight Starlink simulator satellites and test the vehicle's reentry system with 100 removed heat-shield ...

SpaceX and Elon Musk have big ambitions to send the Starship around the moon and eventually to Mars. The eye-catching stainless-steel spacecraft now under development will use a metallic heat ...

SpaceX is upgrading Starship’s heat shield with new tiles that are twice as strong as the previous version used during the flight 4 test. SpaceX is adingd an ablative secondary structure behind the ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed details about the heat shield plans for the Starship spacecraft project. The company developed hexagonal heat shielding tiles to protect the Starship from the extreme ...

The late-night explosion at SpaceX's rocket development complex in Starbase, Texas, destroyed the bullet-shaped upper stage ...

SpaceX tests heat shields that will stop its Starship from burning up "White-hot parts reached orbital entry temp of around 1,650 Kelvin," said Elon Musk. steve dent ...

SpaceX is building a second Mechazilla launch tower and has stacked two of the nine modules. The launch tower is about 469 feet tall or about 45 stories. ... The Starship 30 heat shield has been ...