The 12th flight test slipped from Tuesday to Wednesday and now Thursday as federal regulators investigate a worker death at Starbase.
Flight 12 flew May 22, 2026 and graded partial: booster lost, ship splashdown. Starship is the fully reusable rocket SpaceX builds and flies at Starbase: the Super Heavy booster plus the Starship upper stage, stacked about 400 feet tall.
Starship V3 launches May 20 carrying the hardware upgrades that make Moon and Mars possible.
Published NaN days after Flight 14 flew, which graded success. Starship is the fully reusable rocket SpaceX builds and flies at Starbase: the Super Heavy booster plus the Starship upper stage, stacked about 400 feet tall.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), The date for the twelfth Starship test flight has been rescheduled again, SpaceX announced Monday evening. The launch window was originally scheduled for May 19...
Published NaN days after Flight 14 flew, which graded success. Starship is the fully reusable rocket SpaceX builds and flies at Starbase: the Super Heavy booster plus the Starship upper stage, stacked about 400 feet tall.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Over at the launch site, the first wet dress rehearsal for the full Block 3 vehicle stack began with an actuation test of Ship 39’s forward and aft flaps. After the...
Published NaN days after Flight 14 flew, which graded success. SpaceX numbers each airframe rather than each flight, so a headline about Ship 40 or Booster 21 is about one specific vehicle, not the mission number.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), SpaceX announced it has rescheduled its twelfth Starship test flight. The anticipated launch was originally scheduled to take place on Tuesday, May 19. In an update...
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STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Starting this week with our fabrication updates, two additional sections of Ship 41 were moved into Mega Bay 2 and stacked with the upper sections of this Flight 14...
Flight 14 flew Invalid Date and graded success: booster splashdown, ship splashdown. The bays at Starbase are the tall assembly buildings: boosters and ships get stacked and fitted out inside before rolling to the pad.
SpaceX has set a date for the long-delayed first launch of its next-generation Starship vehicle, which is critical to the company’s ambitions as well as NASA’s lunar plans.
Anything beyond Earth orbit is where Starship is actually aimed: the point of a fully reusable heavy-lift vehicle is cargo to the Moon and eventually Mars.
SpaceX has released a detailed list of changes for Starship Version 3, the next iteration of its fully reusable super-heavy-lift vehicle. Scheduled for its maiden flight as early as May 19 from...
Reuse is the whole economic argument: Falcon 9 boosters now fly and land repeatedly, and Starship is an attempt to do that with both stages instead of one.
The mission will test a host of changes made to both the launch vehicle and the launch infrastructure as SpaceX prepares to support the Artemis 3 mission in 2027.
Starbase has two launch pads. The newer one was built with a flame trench and water deluge after the first flight tore up the original mount.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), SpaceX announced on Tuesday that its twelfth Starship test flight is expected to launch as soon as next week. The anticipated launch window is scheduled to open at...
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Here at Avid Space and Lab Padre, we’re committed to bringing you great footage from Starbase, but it’s a duty that’s not without its perils. The sheer power of the...
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Checking things out over at the production facility, Booster 20 is nearing closeout on its primary structures, with the final sections of the propellant tanks and...
SpaceX numbers each airframe rather than each flight, so a headline about Ship 40 or Booster 21 is about one specific vehicle, not the mission number.
As SpaceX prepares for the first flight of version 3 of Starship, the company is facing a new legal challenge from local residents who claim launches damage their homes.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Over at pad two, the final ground-side checks are underway, with crews verifying the readiness of the tower’s propellant handling systems and the launch pad’s...
Homeowners in Port Isabel, South Padre Island, and Laguna Vista allege repeated rocket launches and landings caused structural damage to their properties.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Starting this week with our fabrication updates, in the early hours of Monday morning, Ship 41’s nose cone emerged from Star Factory. A little less than two hours...
Star Factory is the big production building at Starbase where Starship and Super Heavy sections are actually welded and stacked.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Late Friday afternoon, we were given a rare treat as SpaceX posted a long-form video hyping the upcoming 12th integrated flight test of the Starship program. The...
Flight 12 flew May 22, 2026 and graded partial: booster lost, ship splashdown.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Over at the Massey Outpost, Starship 39 continued its test campaign. The ship was loaded with propellants and performed what appeared to be a spin prime test...
Massey's is the test site a few miles inland from the launch pads, where SpaceX pressure-tests and static-fires hardware before it goes anywhere near a flight.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), On Tuesday afternoon, Booster 20’s forward dome with an integrated hot staging section was brought out of the star factory and parked in the ring yard area. That...
Star Factory is the big production building at Starbase where Starship and Super Heavy sections are actually welded and stacked.
SpaceX completed a full duration of Starship V3 today clearing the path for Flight 12.
Flight 12 flew May 22, 2026 and graded partial: booster lost, ship splashdown. Ground testing at Starbase runs in a set order: cryogenic pressure tests first, then a static fire where the engines light while the vehicle stays clamped down.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), On Wednesday, SpaceX performed a 12th round of cryogenic testing on the Ship 39.1 test tank as they continue working to ensure the Block III ship designs will...
SpaceX numbers each airframe rather than each flight, so a headline about Ship 40 or Booster 21 is about one specific vehicle, not the mission number.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), This week at Starbase saw continued production on Booster 20 with the booster’s liquid oxygen propellant tank for landing burns being brought into Mega Bay 1 for...
The bays at Starbase are the tall assembly buildings: boosters and ships get stacked and fitted out inside before rolling to the pad.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Testing at pad 2 continues with water deluge, methane plumbing, and full-speed chopstick tests taking place amid SpaceX’s continuing efforts to validate and make...
Starbase has two launch pads. The newer one was built with a flame trench and water deluge after the first flight tore up the original mount.
The announcement arrives after Flight 11 on October 13 of last year, which concluded a busy 2025 testing campaign. Since then, SpaceX has focused on ground testing, including cryoproofing of Ship 39...
Flight 11 flew October 13, 2025 and graded success: booster splashdown, ship splashdown.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), On Monday morning, the B18.3 test tank was rolled out of Mega Bay 1 and parked in the ring yard area. Later that morning, we could see that the test arms had been...
The bays at Starbase are the tall assembly buildings: boosters and ships get stacked and fitted out inside before rolling to the pad.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), On Monday, the letters from the Gateway to Mars sign that used to adorn the launch complex wall before the construction of Pad 2 were brought back to the pad. Over...
Anything beyond Earth orbit is where Starship is actually aimed: the point of a fully reusable heavy-lift vehicle is cargo to the Moon and eventually Mars.